[lbo-talk] Adam Smith on Too Big to Fail

[shag carpet bomb]

At 10:36 AM 12/2/2009, Carrol Cox wrote:
>You can't demand that Smith answer your questions, because then he can't
>write his books.

this is a really pithy way to explain what an immanent critique is all 
about. recognizing when you're assessing the work on its own terms, and 
when you're engaged in external critique. they each have their place i 
think -- the latter is deployed as polemics in most, say, book reviews.

shag

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