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From: Michael Hoover <hoov-AT-freenet.tlh.fl.us>
Subject: Re: M-I: G.A. Cohen: "Stagism" cloaked as Marxism
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 97 7:35:23 18000


Louis P: 
> In "Karl Marx's Theory of History", Cohen singles out a paragraph from
> Marx's Critique of Political Economy that serves a guide to the sort of
> Marxism that Cohen endorses: 
> 
> "In the social production of their life, men enter into definite relations
> that are indispensable and independent of their will, relations of
> production which correspond to a definite stage of their development of

<snip>

I've always liked what Richard Miller - in his "Analyzing Marx" - had
to say about the above passage from the Preface:

'I can think of no other major theorist whose general theory is often
reconstructed, in large part, by a close reading of a brief
formulation embedded in an autobigraphical sketch in a preface to a
book that he gladly allowed to go out of print, as superseded by
later writings." (p175)



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