Determinism (Jim O'Connor)

Barbara Laurence cns at cats.ucsc.edu
Sat Oct 21 18:17:00 PDT 2000


Derek Sayer's Violence of Abstraction is a great antidote to Cohen's invention of analytical Marxism, so-called. It presents Marx's own Marx, keywords being alienation, reification, commodity and capital fetishism.

If it's determinism you want, try reading the great American naturalist novelists, esp. Dreiser. Between biology and environment, freedom is a sick joke. Except at the end of Dreiser's last novel, The Bulwark, pantheism teaches the strict Quaker protagonist how to die well.



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