[lbo-talk] Lee's Garage

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Feb 17 16:02:23 PST 2006


info at pulpculture.org wrote:


>Just for fun, I thought you'd like this bit where Marx admonishes
>people for leaving the people out of it and for leaving out of it
>the _conditions of production and producers of these ideas_.
>
>Let me repeat that: "conditions of production and producers of these ideas."
>
>Shall I type it out one more time? :)

I think certain heads resist penetration by this set of ideas! Maybe they imagine themselves to be the avatars of the new class, whose ideas will be universalized separate from any thinkers:


>For each new class which puts itself in the place of one ruling
>before it, is compelled, merely in order to carry through its aim,
>to represent its interest as the common interest of all the members
>of society, that is, expressed in ideal form: it has to give its
>ideas the form of universality, and represent them as the only
>rational, universally valid ones.

But that seems unlikely.

Doug



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