[lbo-talk] not theory

[Tahir Wood]

From: "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] not theory
And the crucial point here is that NOTHING in the preceding paragraph has
anything whatever to do with the question of Theory and Practice as it has
actually come up in political thought and practice for a century or two. The
question of Theory and practice must be limited to the world of conscious
political practice and attempts to relate that practice (conscious political
practice) to conscious Theory. 

T: I also don't have much further to go with this thread, except to say that the Leninist orthodoxy here is not to my appetite, and secondly that the personal IS political, and thirdly that the formal reduction of politics to an ideal situation falsifies it, as Hegel would have known.

Suggestion: When you say (or think) Theory, think e=mc*2. If you have
wandered into realms or topics where you cannot hold on to that as your
model of Theory, then you may or may not be discussing important matters,
but you have left behind all the debates of the last century over Theory and
Practice. 

T: Well, leaving some of them behind doesn't sound that bad to me, in the light of these wretched posts! But if there is a theory in politics that somehow (I know not how) equates to e+mc2 I would love the chance to trash it.

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