[lbo-talk] not theory

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Mon Jan 30 10:26:08 PST 2012


Miles Jackson:

On 1/30/2012 6:55 AM, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> Or, as the Gang of Four put it in "Why Theory?," "What we think changes
how we act."

I love that song, but I always want to say: It works the other way around too!

(Thinking & Theory are not the same incidentally.)

And the ultimate question (carrying us both away from and back to political practice) is Where do those ideas come from? Do they drop from the sky?

Carrol



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