From: "Karl Carlile" <joseph-AT-indigo.ie> Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 17:11:22 +0000 Subject: Re: M-I: Althusser KARL: Hi Louis. It is warm and sunny in Dublin which makes for an extraordinary change. LOUIS:Althusser, at least in his early writings, was engaged in a thoroughly worthwhile project, and that was to show that Marx was not an economic determinist. He was doing battle particularly with the orthodoxy of the intelligentsia grouped around the French Communist Party. The only thing I find unfortunate about Althusser is that he felt compelled to ally himself with structuralism. His rather obscure language and use of terms borrowd from psychoanalysis like "overdetermination" didn't help matters either. KARL: For me me one of the more interesting aspects of Althusser's writings are those concerned with the relationship between the earlier and later works of Marx. Althusser's discontinutity thesis was quite provocative and helped draw attention to some interesting questions such as the question of the relationship of humanism to marxism. It seems to me that the debate concerning issue of the character of the relationship between the text of the earlier and later Marx is one that seem to have died a, perhaps, somewhat slow death, rather than been resolved. Yours etc., Karl Yours etc., Karl --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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