Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 15:24:33 -0400 (EDT)
From: Stephen Grossman <SGROSSMAN-AT-umassd.edu>
Subject: Re: marxism


Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 06:51:55 -0400 (EDT)
From: Philip Goldstein <pgold-AT-strauss.udel.edu>
Subject: RE: marxism

>	Thanks also to Fassbinder, who takes so much pleasure in bashing 
>academic Marxists. I am glad to see that someone 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. 

Another example of sub-rational, perceptual Marxism is the above appeal to 
_only_ the self-evident. In tribal culture, the concrete tribal tradition is 
taken for granted and no one asks "why." Equality of stupidity.


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