Reply to Ted and Brad

Dennis Robert Redmond dredmond at efn.org
Wed Jul 4 21:22:12 PDT 2001


On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Ted Winslow wrote:


> Jameson can see nothing wrong with (and no essential incompatibility with
> Marx in) the "core" of Gary Becker's "admirably totalizing approach" i.e.
> with Becker's claim that "the economic approach provides a valuable
> framework for understanding all human behavior."

Um. Fred is being heavily ironic. Later he goes on to say that radicals and neoliberals pretty much share the same world-view -- except for the essential thing, i.e. the neolibs laud the total system, while we denounce it; it's only the middle-of-the-road types who vehemently reject the idea that something like capitalism might actually exist. Adorno says somewhere, actually, that the truth lies in the mediation of extremes, not the bad compromise between the two...

-- Dennis



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