Query on Althusser

[Mark Jones]

Carrol, Althusser was another of these ouanqueres and a real loony toon. He
retracted his denial, but I reckon its obvious he never read Capital. So 'Lire
le Capital' was just a neopomo joke.

Mark

Carrol Cox wrote:


> I remember very vaguely about an announcement by Althusser near the end of
> his life to the effect that he had never read *Capital*. I assume my
> memory is at least partly false, but I wondered if anyone on this list
> happens to have knowledge of anything like this.
>
> (I'm reading a critique of Althusser, parts of which suggest that if he
> did read *Capital* he didn't really pay much attention to it.)
>
> Carrol