[lbo-talk] Polish Philosopher Wins $1M Kluge Prize

Chris Brooke chris.brooke at magdalen.oxford.ac.uk
Wed Nov 5 15:22:13 PST 2003


On 5/11/03 10:34 pm, "andie nachgeborenen" <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:


> Main Currents is in the main an
> honest, thorough, intelligent, and even fair-minded
> discussion of Marxist political philosophy -- it's
> rather weak on economic theory. Even at the end of the
> final volume, The Breakdown, which LK envisages as
> putting the gravestone on Marxism, he still says taht
> people who try to deduce the Gulag for Marx's theories
> are dumb.

I'm no expert, but while I enjoy reading large sections of volume 2 of MC of M, I find volume 3 pretty grim reading: the chapters on, e.g., Trotsky and Gramsci are awful.


> But I still don't see the book, or his
> whoile career, as worth a million bucks, except as an
> ideological statement. He's done nothing at all of
> value other than Main Currents since he switched
> sides.

Not true. His book on Pascal and Jansenism, "God Owes Us Nothing", published a few years ago by Chicago, is excellent.

Chris



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