[lbo-talk] Free trade costs thousands of jobs... none other than conservative Phyllis Schlafly...

Michael Pugliese debsian at pacbell.net
Wed Aug 6 06:50:10 PDT 2003



>> On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 20:13:44 -0700
>> "Eubulides" <paraconsistent at comcast.net> wrote:


> Ah, the tyranny of concepts........

^Title of what appears to be a debunk of orthodox marxism. This fellow probably got this where I bought a copy of Browder, Earl and George E. Sokolsky "Is Communism a menace?" A debate between Earl Browder and George E. Sokolsky. New Masses, New York. 1943, 47p. The Baffler had a piece on Sokolsky a few issues ago. Now that isn't a boring lefty magazine. http://www.westegg.com/jinxblog/archives/000218.html
> ...May 17, 2003
The Tyranny of Concepts: A Critique of Marxism

I just bought - in a fine used-bookstore in Glendale, Los Angeles - Gordon Leff's book of the above title. The opening paragraph of the book makes a key point:

"Marxism, as a doctrine, is a series of paradoxes. It claims to be a science yet regards its truths as transcendental; it upholds the inexorability of change while remaining frozen in its century-old categories; it asserts the conditional nature of all outlooks and claims exemption for its own; it condemns pragmatism but makes success its criterion; it denounces metaphysics while labouring under its own metaphysical presuppositions." Posted by Morgan at May 17, 2003 01:34 PM -- Michael Pugliese



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