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On Feb 13, 2008 11:08 AM, Carrol Cox
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> andie nachgeborenen wrote:
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> > One political reason I don't like the p/u labor
> > distinction is that emotionally it seems to line up in
> > people's minds with p=good, necessary, justified,
> > would exist under socialism, u= bad, wasteful,
>
> So using it politically (regardless of its theoretical validity or
> invalidity) is as silly as using quantum mechanics to determine the
> proper oven temperature for a lamb roast.
>
> Carrol
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Uh, no. The political/theory divide re validity is *much* more problematic than is the case you analogize to habitually.
There's a reason they call it political economy after all................
Ian
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"The question whether objective truth can be attributed to human thinking is not a question of theory but is a practical question. Man (sic) must prove the truth — i.e. the reality and power, the this-sidedness of his thinking in practice. The dispute over the reality or non-reality of thinking that is isolated from practice is a purely scholastic question."
- Big Daddy