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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