> 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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"Marxism can become very unshocking when it, too, is transformed into
a piece of intellectual property, dissected into a million different
varieties, distributed throughout the established division of academic
and political labor, and traded within the existing structures of
market exchange under any number of brand names. No longer do
Hegelian-Marxism and Marxist-Leninism alone define the principal
methods for producing Marxist science and politics, but also a
consumer catalog of post-structuralist, literary, and autonomist
Marxisms as well, along with an array of other 'critical' approaches
that may or may not come under Marxism's corporate logo." ["Reading
Marx Writing: Melodrama, the Market, and the Grundrisse" Thomas
Kemple]
Ian