Vanishing Marxism on LBO-talk

Ian Murray seamus2001 at attbi.com
Tue Feb 18 16:58:59 PST 2003


----- Original Message ----- From: "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu>


> Journalists as journalists and academics as academics (perhaps
> bureaucrats also) have the habit of looking at the world from some
> position of vantage _outside_ it. This makes their perceptions (or more
> exactly, the questions they hassle over) fairly irrelevant at best to
> political thinking.
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The idea of there being an outside of the world from which to attain a metaperspectival [ad]vantage is, of course, utter nonsense.

Also, a reflexivity alert is in order.

Ian



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