Rhetorical Gestures (was Re: Spivak sez...)

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Wed Oct 13 13:11:19 PDT 1999


Doug Henwood wrote:


> Charles Brown wrote:
>
> >Charles: Anybody know examples of how Marx did this and where ? I
> >cannot remember ever reading Marx using Kant's name.
>
> I was using "Kant" as a representative of the Western philosophical
> tradition, because he was the guy Spivak had been talking about.
> Obviously in Marx's case, Hegel and Ricardo are the relevant names.

Engels refers to Kant in *Anti-Duhring*, and re general philosophical tradition, Marx in his chapter of the *Antii-Duhring* jumps all over Duhring for attacking Plato. As far as I could tell Marx had a pretty protective attitude towards Plato, Aristotle, and Ricardo. *He* could lambaste them, but he could get real mean if others did.

Carrol



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