Date: Wed, 17 Aug 1994 00:03:07 -0500 (EST)
From: wesley david cecil <wcecil-AT-indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: Marxism and academia


Ok, if a "real marxist" is a person who wants to put an end to capitalism
ny studying the "real world" then we are in "real" trouble.  First, labor
statistics are generated by an academic discipline par-excellance, if you
think Hegelian Ontology is a bit sticky, try a brief read through some
economic modeling texts(I know there are some professional economists on 
the server, perhaps you could speak to this issue).  Not that economics 
is useless, far from it, but I would argue that it is no more, nor less, 
a real pursuit than what is going on in this group. 
More to my field of inquiry, putting an end to capitalism seems a bit 
utopic, particularly when taken as the goal of an individual.  Perhaps 
you should exmine your bourgois desires to be a self-realized, fully 
conscious actor in the stage play of revolution a bit before you start 
slicing up the real and not so real.
Wes


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