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Date: Tue, 26 Jul 1994 21:13:20 -0400
From: Anthony_Arnove-AT-Brown.edu
Subject: theses on marx


Jon Beasley-Murray proposes that "I.	Marx was right about economics but
(probably) wrong about everything else."  I disagreed with the thrust of
the following theses, but this one I can't let pass.  My initial reaction
is really to ask, first, whether you can possibly be serious and, second,
whether you've read any Marx on politics or philosophy.  Unless I'm
misreading you, you're suggesting that Marx got it right (minus all your
qualifications, and even if it is "mere banality") in _Capital_ (and maybe
the _Grundrisse_) but that he (and Engels) totally got it wrong in _The
Critique of the Gotha Program_, _The German Ideology_, _The Poverty of
Philosophy_, _The Communist Manifesto_, _The Civil War in France_, _The
18th Brumaire_, "Theses on Feuerbach," and all the other historical,
philosophical, and political writings?  "[T]his knowledge cannot situate us
or enable us to understand society in any detail"? "[T]his knowledge
carries no political valence"?  Did I subscribe to the non-Marxism list by
mistake?  

Anthony Arnove
Anthony_Arnove-AT-brown.edu


   

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