Date: Tue, 13 Sep 94 12:47:15 EDT From: Sam D Fassbinder <sfassbin-AT-magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Subject: Re: marxism Thanks also to Goldstein, who misses the point entirely about the commodity functioning of academic production. NOBODY in this business has found a space above the crude level of commodity production, where there is no need to sell one's ideas or one's self, where the truth of one's views and ideas will be so self-evident and manifest,especially to those disgusted with the capitalist system and, hence, already persuaded, that one has merely to state these views to get them accepted. as Goldstein so sarcastically comments. Of course I am out to sell my own ideas -- would I be getting a PhD (would I have access to a modem?) if I weren't? The "truth-gaming" function of ideas here is irrelevant to their commodity-function except to LEGITIMATE it, the same way use-value legitimates exchange-value. Goldstein here implies that I claim to have found a pure use-value for my ideas; that's nonsense. Samuel Day Fassbinder Department of Communication Ohio State University sfassbin-AT-magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu ------------------
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