[lbo-talk] The postmodern prince

[dave dorkin]

I dont believe that a 21th century translation of the
parts of capital that actually are like what Michael
describes are so hard to grasp. Marx's 'theory' can be
said briefly and minus the negation of the negation
etc, I think it is more evidence in chomsky's favor. I
have no animus to stating one's assumptions and so on
but calling everything that moved a "theory" has had
some unfortunate effects in the acadmeny and beyond.  

Dave


> I'll be most readers - most educated readers - would
> find vol. 1 of  Capital pretty rough going. And that
was the vol. that Marx finished.He didn't just
observe. He linked his observations to a theory, and 
the theory illuminated his observations. Even the most

 anti-theoretical person operates with some kind of
implicit theory.  Why the hostility to making it
explicit?  Doug

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