Thesis XII

Mathew Forstater forstate at levy.org
Wed Jun 24 19:45:11 PDT 1998



> On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Brad De Long wrote:
>
> > Hitherto, activists tried to change the world.
> >
> > The point, though, is to interpret it

The point is to change it, but Marx never said that that means we stop interpreting it (I am indebted to my teacher the Marxist anthropologist--and critic of pomo by the way--Peter Rigby for emphasizing this point).

There are also times when interpretation actually changes the world.

Mat



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