Kautsky parle

[Michael Eisenscher]

At 01:07 AM 9/4/1998 -0400, Rakesh Bhandari wrote:
[SNIP]
>They are difficult concepts; but I suspect that my struggle with them can
>be more intense than for  an actively exploited or oppressed worker
>who is refracting them through daily experience and whose thirst for
>knowledge may be whetted by humiliations of daily life.  I have every 
>confidence that every worker, if she so desired, could master basic
>Marxian concepts to the degree that she could make the determination of
>whether they really do help to organize and illuminate the character of
>society and the struggles which animate it.  Nothing in my experience
>contradicts this and my experience indicates to me that the working class
>is much more likely to have an easier time understanding Marx. 
>

Rakesh,

I also have confidence that workers can master the concepts.  It is not your
use of concepts but the inaccessible lingo that I criticized.  In other
respects, you get no argument from me.

As I have not had the opportunity to read most of your favored authors
(except Marcuse), perhaps you'd share a reading list with this unschooled
still-aspiring Marxist.

In solidarity,
Michael E.