[lbo-talk] The zen of marx (was clarification)

[Lakshmi Rhone]

I don't know what it means to say that Ted is dealing with a different level
of abstraction when
he quotes Marx to justify killing off individuals for the greater good of
better productive forces. I just
know that it scares me. And your apology is also really troubling.
By social justice theory I mean Barry's radicalization of the concept of
equal opportunity and Sen's
ideas about comparative justice. Both interweave social research into their
theories.
LR

On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:36 AM, brad bauerly <bbauerly at gmail.com> wrote:


> >Frankly speaking, Ted you are scaring me. My >social justice perspective
> is
> >at odds with your Marxism/Stalinism. I worry that >I am on the wrong list.
>
> >LR
>
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>
> The problem is that you need to tell us what you mean by social justice.
>  It
> is a subjective term and many of the discussions/debates/arguments that
> appear here actually revolve around that distinction, although possibly
> unknown to even those involved.  The term is simply quite useless.
>
> As for Ted's comments- he is operating at a different level of abstraction
> than some/most here.  You should read and learn from them but you need to
> understand the level that they are coming from and how it might be
> different
> from (integrated with) your own. I have no idea why you would call it
> Stalinist (which is itself a subjective term)?
>
> Brad
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