----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Brown" <cbrown at michiganlegal.org>
In fact, Marxism is more critical thinking than Keynesianism, Nietzchean stuff, anarchism. Just by adhering to Marx's ideas more closely than others here makes me more of a critical thinker than those who do not. The most fundamentally critical thinking today is _still_ Marxism. The most critical thinking today is critique of capitalism. Marx's writing is riddled with "critiques" , and they are still fresh. Same with Lenin. I think if we look in the archives, we'll find some other Marxists here called dogmatic,or the like. It's a tired habit.
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What self-serving rot.
The ruthless criticism of all that exists exempts no one engaged in proffering hypotheses and theories of actual historical circumstances and how to relieve/overcome the staggering varieties of human misery that currently exist. No dispensation for Marx or Nietzsche or Einstein or Darwin or any other theorists that folks want to stick a three letter suffix to.
Whining about thinkers who didn't think the same thoughts or think about the same topics as Marx is just plain *stupid*. There's more to human life than the critique[s] of contemporary capitalism.
There's not a lick of evidence that there is or could be the one best theory of society and how to change it any more than we have any evidence that there can be one final, complete theory of reality.
Dogmatically anti-dogmatic,
Ian