> From: andie nachgeborenen
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> CB: Your "So you say that in one of the two concrete cases where you
> discussed this, you accepted as plausible the absurd belief that class
> interests operate directly to explain behavior without psychological
> mediation "
does not seem like an accurate characterization of Yoshie's
"I don't recall saying that "class interests," considered as merely economic interests, are direct determinants of the "psycho-sexual" matters, perhaps with the exception of my restatement of Luker's explanation of the rise of anti-abortion ideology in the late-nineteenth century (she attributes it to male medical doctors' attempt at professionalization of medicine)."
Since you reject the idea that psychological factors can ever be explanans
CB: I think it's "psychological " factors can never be explanans of social phenomena.
and
> have expressly stated that they are always explananda, you must hold that
> some other non-class-interest factor but nonpsychological explains other
> phenomena. This is still mechanical Marxism.
CB: No , it's not socalled mechanical Marxism. It's social determinism.
^^^^^^
Frankly, until I heard you and Carrol assert this absurd view, I would
havesaid that
> it was a straw man that no intelligent Marxist ever actually believed. jks
CB: Me thinks ye doth protest too much
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