[lbo-talk] Query on Hegel

lbo83235 lbo83235 at gmail.com
Tue Feb 7 10:03:26 PST 2012


On Feb 7, 2012, at 7:58 PM, Eric Beck wrote:


> But I also think that the strict
> division that's usually assumed in these discussions--theory vs.
> practice, thought vs. action--aligns perfectly with the capitalist
> divsion of labor between the head and the hand, between intellectual
> labor and manual labor. It makes sense that ur-capitalist philosophers
> like Hegel and Kant (or maybe Descartes) would be the ones to first
> insist on the division, but I'm not sure it makes sense for
> anticapitalists to follow it. It's better to problematize the division
> than repeat it.

A: "Hey, B., pass me that hammer, okay?"

B: "I would, but you haven't established the conditions for the possibility."

A: [Grabs hammer, kills B.]



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