File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1997/97-03-22.073, message 54


From: Michael Hoover <hoov-AT-freenet.tlh.fl.us>
Subject: Re: M-I: Roemer's folly
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 97 9:29:17 18000


Louis P commenting on "Egalitarian Perspectives" - a collection of 
John Roemer's articles...
> 
> Roemer states that the purpose of the book is to answer the question of
> "what egalitarians seek to equalize." 
> The topic of
> "egalitarianism" within this circle of professional philosophers is an
> entirely abstract matter. They chat about it in the same dry and
> intellectual way that aesthetic philosophers discuss "beauty".

M&E write in - "The German Ideology" - that
"...Philosophy and the study of the actual world have the same
relation to one another as masturbation and sexual love."
(ed., Arthur, p103)


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