File spoon-archives/marxism.archive/marxism_1994/marxism.Jul12-Aug17.94, message 313


Date: Tue, 9 Aug 1994 16:50:50 -0400 (EDT)
From: Philip Goldstein <pgold-AT-strauss.udel.edu>
Subject: Hegel/Marx


      Gene says that we should keep the political-economic kernel but 
throw away the Hegelian shell of Marxist theory. My organic metaphors 
don't fully state the problem with this view, which is that the 
political-economic content has no life independent of its Hegelian form. 
To extract the content, you have to restate it, and that restatement 
gives it a new form. I know that you have argued strenuously, Gene, that 
the LTV is a valuable basis for critique, but what kind of critique is 
this? Doesn't it reinstate the Hegelian totality which you claim to 
reject?
      I have a similar problem with the Habermas stuff. The explanation 
of Habermas was very informative, but the issue of the kind of critique 
presupposed by Habermas remains an issue.
Phil "Many Faces" Goldstein


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