Chris Doss wrote:
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> Ironically, this view is really a variety of solipsism, reducing as it does reality to human practice.
"That view" belongs to Charles & to a crude pragmatism which has nothing to do with Marx, since for Marx, at least in the Theses Charles is relying on here, practice was (a) collective (revolutionizing, changing those involved in it) and (b) the test of "truth" not in the sense Charles has in mind, the correctness of particular propositions, but truth in the sense of "this-sidedness" -- meaning a collective agent always already inovled in "the world out there" -- i.e., it was not out there but "in here, we with it." When you automatically, it seems, identify practice with the practice of the isolated individual you show your spontaneous acceptance of the fundamental perspective of capitalist ideology, the abstract--isolated--individual (or the mere sum of such individuals) as constituting the human species.
Carrol
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> --- On Wed, 6/18/08, Charles Brown <charlesb at cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us> wrote:
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> > As to whether we can observe nature directly, that reminds
> > of Kant's
> > unknowable-things-in- themselves. I subscribe to the
> > Hegel/Engels way of
> > dealing with that. In a few words, practice as the test of
> > theory cuts
> > throw the problem that our cultural/symbol system bias
> > mediates our
> > observation of objective reality.
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