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Date: Tue, 16 Aug 1994 15:52:01 -0400 (EDT)
From: Stephen Grossman <SGROSSMAN-AT-umassd.edu>
Subject: Re: Marxism and academia


Date: Tue, 16 Aug 1994 08:47:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: Louis N Proyect <lnp3-AT-columbia.edu>
Subject: RE: Marxism and academia

>"Western Marxism" tends to view Marx as some kind of post-Hegelian 
>philosopher and offers commentary on him strictly as a philosopher. 

I asked my former Marxism philosophy prof about revolution and got a 
discussion of epistemology in reply. This, from a guy who once told me he 
would rather be throwing bombs! On the other hand, maybe Gramsci can be 
understood as predicting such intellectuals will have hegemony in the long 
run.

>I think is a complete distortion of Marx's role in history. Marx is the 
>author of the Communist Manifesto. In the Columbia on-line library card 
>catalog, when you look up the subject "Marxism": you are referred to 
>Communism or Socialism.

>Marx was a communist. He is the founder of the communist movement. He was 
>involved with party-building. To regard him simply as a philosopher is a 
>travesty on everything he stood for.

Agreed, and since my "Zig-Zag" message, on revolutionary strategy, has been 
ignored, I will shortly leave this group.


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