Out on an Althusserian Limb (was Re: A zillion is too many!)

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Jim D. says:

>BTW, the problem I find with Wolff & Resnick is they seem to make a 
>conscious effort to avoid taking a stand on anything. No factor is 
>society is more important than any other, while the disagreement 
>between the neoclassical and Marxian schools seems to be nothing but 
>a matter of opinion (subjective).

Right.  Althusser's "overdetermination" is the furthest point you can 
reach on the limb of "relative autonomy," and if you go beyond it as 
Wolff & Resnick do, you fall off the deep end, never to see the light 
of day again....  M-C-M' has the last word on capitalism, even if 
"the lonely hour of the 'last instance' never comes" in empirical 
investigations.  This is what I was trying to get at, in the 
"debates" on capitalism & slavery....

Yoshie