[lbo-talk] compare and contrast

[Carrol Cox]

In the chapter Marx wrote for the Anti-Duhring, he pointed out that Plato's
study of form was excellent. I would construe this as noting that one can
ignore the metaphysical existence Plato ascribes to his forms; rather, they
can be taken as abstractions. Actuality then is not an 'imitation' of the
forms but their origihn.

And that brings us back to the derivation of thought from action rather than
action being merely the implementation of thought.

And that brings us to the Eleventh Thesis.

And it also gets rid of the redundancy that always attaches to "moral"
arguments. The moral principle is always added on (as baggage) _after_ the
act; it never guides the action because what doesn't exist can affect what
does exist.

Carrol