Date: Thu, 21 Jul 1994 10:32:42 +0000 From: dassbach-AT-mtu.edu (Carl Dassbach) Subject: Re: Labor Theory & Lukacs Enaging in debate about Luakcs's Marxism would take us afield of the point so let me focus on the claim made by Chris that Lukacs defines Marxism as dialectics. This is incorrect - he does not, nor do I think would he ever, DEFINE Marxism as DIALECTICS - instead he says that Marxism is the "scientific conviction that DIALECTICAL MATERIALISM is the road to truth and it method can be developed .... along the lines laid donw by its founders (Marx and Engels)." There are several important differences between this statement and defining Marxism as dialectics which are obvious and which I will not elbaorate on. Even more importantly, this statement must be put into context, Lukacs is explicitly reacting to the revisionist (Bernstein et.al) - and we might also extend this to the current crop of revisionists - who point out that Marx's prdictions were wrong - e.g., the immiseration of the masses or the "final" revolution, the failure of socialism - hence all of Marx's thought is wrong. This is the fallacy towards which this statement is addressed and it is in the context of the dicussion of whether the labor theory of value is "right" or "wrong" which I raised this point. Carl Dassbach ------------------
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