Date: Fri, 19 Aug 1994 16:21:42 -0400 (EDT)
From: Stephen Grossman <SGROSSMAN-AT-umassd.edu>
Subject: immediate moment


Marxism is economics of the immediate moment and not of the long-run, thus its 
opposition to production for profit and opposition to commodities and 
opposition to managers and middlemen (distributers, wholesalers). Like 
primitive savages 
(well, after all, Marxism is a Kantianism) everywhere, only the immediate 
moment is real so only immediate, physical labor is understood as productive. 
Production which is long-range or indirect, thus requiring reason, rather than 
perception (thus phenomenology, structuralism, postmodernism, Pragmatism, 
etc.), is rejecte within Marxism. This analysis is of ends, not the often 
long-range Marxist means.


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