Justin Schwartz wrote:
>
> >
> > Carrol and I have bonked heads many a time about
> whether Marx was wrong to dery any prognostication at all in the form of
> building models of a postcapitalist society (C says yes, I say no),
Occasionally Justin's fingers are not in perfect harmony with his intentions. :-) And here I think he got tangled in his negatives. C says no, Marx was not wrong to deny [decry?] prognostication; J says yes, Marx was wrong to do so.
And if Justin meant "decry" rather than "deny," he has his negatives in harmony.
The "deny-decry" choice shows why the life of textual critics can he an onerous one. See Timpanaro for the argument that such slips are better explained by philology than by psychoanalysis.
Carrol
but we
> agree that he was right to insist that the future will be built in ways we
> can't picture or predict in more than the vaguest terms by them as do it
> practically.
>
> jks
>
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