Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 14:52:40 -0500 (EST)
From: Andrew Wayne Austin <aaustin-AT-utkux.utcc.utk.edu>
Subject: Re: M-I: Re: Marx was not an economic determinist


And so in attacking us for relying on what we read, Antonio Mota relies on
what he reads to argue against us. Antonio Mota blames us for accessing
the past in the same fashion he is bound to access the past by: reading
history. Strange argument. 

Antonio, Marx was opposed to vulgar materialist views that held the
dialectic to stand external to social systems. This was his stated
position. It was why he gave the position of idealism such hell.  It is
not an assumption that dialectical materialism, as formulated in Soviet
Marxism, stands against Marx's, it contradicts what Marx himself wrote. I
believe this list has an archive. I direct you to a four part post I wrote
some time back using quotes by Marx that obliterates the position you are
advancing. 

AA



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