----- Original Message ----- From: "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 9:09 PM Subject: Re: war and the state (was milton, etc.)
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> Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> >
> >> It seems you are not so much opposing what Engels says as quibbling
> > with his use of the word "authoritarian," since you don't oppose the
> > use of force in self-defense or to "root out wage slavery."
> > --
> > Yoshie
> >
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> A surprising amount of criticism of marx & other marxists is based on
> word magic. Some people simply cannot bear, for example, for the words
> "value" and "productive" not to carry a moral content. As when Engels
> wrote his fine essay, the world is still filled with people who are more
> concerned with the (negative) moral vibration of such terms as
> "authority" than with the actual conditions within which struggles to
> transform the world must be conducted.
>
> Carrol
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What is word magic?
Ian