From: Carrol Cox <cbcox-AT-rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
Subject: Re: M-TH: Re: M-I: Primitive Accumulation
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 21:30:13 -0600 (CST)


Lou P writes:

<<It is the anomalies that Marxism has to explain.>>

No. Some of them perhaps, but demands such as this are one of the sources
of the dogmatism that Lou so hates. Marxism *cannot* explain everything. 
Probably it can't even explain *most* of "everything." Dogmatists assume
it can and proceed to stuff the whole universe into their little
dogmatics. 

If we are very very lucky marxism will explain just enough of the world to
allow the working classes to destroy capitalism and begin the building of
socialism. That "just enough" is an enormous demand, actually, especially
as we do not know what it is we need to know, so it is difficult even to
set priorities. 

Carrol



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