[lbo-talk] Query on Hegel

[Carrol Cox]

We really do need, sometimes desperately, to know where we have gotten to.
And that is never explicit in our action. Perhaps even one of our political
difficulties now is imperfect grasp of how we got 'hee,' late in an
unopposed capitalist assault, beginning in the early or mid-70s, on the
conditions of working people. 

Carrol

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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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