[lbo-talk] query: from anarchist to marxist???

Eric Beck ersatzdog at gmail.com
Tue Oct 18 09:06:32 PDT 2011


On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 8:08 AM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:


> If Marxism is taken as a critique of capitalism, then it is wrong to
> associate it with any particular ploitical position.

Yeah, but critique entails *some* sort of outside position, however minimal; at some level, stated or not, critique is non-immanent. (This doesn't have to mean a moral position, though it often does.) And that's where the politics comes in. Marxism, like OWS, implies a political position.



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