On Wed, 09 Dec 1998 15:40:21 -0500 Louis Proyect <lnp3 at panix.com> writes:
>Robinson's main point was that modern philosophy evolved in order to
meet
>the needs of the rising bourgeoisie. It aspires to be universal but
>conceals the very particular and historical needs of the class which was
>coming to power in the age of Descartes. One of the purposes of Marxism
is
>to make this connection and expose the class bias of bourgeois
>philosophy.
If only things were that black and white. What about the so-called Western Marxists? According to Perry Anderson's book (Considerations of Western Marxism), most of those fellows, with the exception of Gramsci, came from bourgeois families. So is there bourgeois class bias in the works of Althusser, or the Frankfurters, or Sartre, or Lukacs? And how exactly does Western Marxism serve the "particular and historical needs" of the bourgeois?
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