Charles Miller wrote:
> I suggest that your view of
> argument is what leads to the sterility of most academic debates--long
> on words short on getting
> anything done.
This is something like saying that the trouble with goats is that they can't tailor expensive suits, or that the trouble with saying "X is orange" is that it doesn't tell us whether X is a square or a squiggle. It's an old and dishonorable trick of rhetoric.
And perhaps if more Marxists read more of the bulk of Marx's writings they would discover in practice that Marx honored (And Practiced) both academic and theoretical writing, though only the latter was or is closely tied to political practice.
Carrol