[lbo-talk] How to Read

Michael Dawson -PSU mdawson at pdx.edu
Wed Mar 17 09:01:07 PST 2004


Yoshie claims this classic passage from _Capital_ is an attack on individualism:

"a very Eden of the innate
> >>rights of man," where "alone rule Freedom, Equality, Property and
> >>Bentham"

It's not. It's a lampoon of capitalists' claims to represent the final triumph of freedom. Again, big difference.

Althusser charged Marx with replicating Hegel's errors. In order to do that, he had to willfully misread Marx. Yoshie follows Althusser.

P.S. For a supposed materialist, Mr. Althusser paid awfully little attention to concrete realities.



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