Date: Mon, 20 Nov 95 07:42 CST
From: Scott Marshall <Scott-AT-rednet.org>
Subject: stick around Peter


Stick around Peter (why did I call you Bobby before...ah the poets)

>       1. that there are serious problems with adopting a dogmatic, 
>       physical-reductionist, scientism reminiscent of 19th materialism 
>       in today's intellectual and scientific context <see the last of 
>       my posts on "vulgarities">; 
>       
>       2. that it would be better to read Marx in a more humanistic/
>       Aristotelian/Hegelian spirit--as many more recent views of Marx 
>       suggest we should <and on the basis of Marx's own texts, too>

Why do you want to replace 19th century materialism with an eclectic stew of
pre 19th century idealism. As to the science you mention, here we suffer
from the lack of Marxist theorticians in the physical sciences. It seems to
me that there is somewhat a retreat into agnosticism and idealism in the
name of 'modernity' and updating. This is not at all to argue against
updating but updating pre-19th century idealism and skepticism is hardly
original nor fruitful IMO.

Scott

ps. I was spit on in the South for being 'poor white trash', but I still
reject racism and racist institutions. BTW there are priests, nuns and monks
in our party and they don't have any problems for it.



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