> On Apr 16, 2016, at 5:39 AM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
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> What are you saying here, Marv? The post is unintelligible. And of course
> the post you quote made no sense either.
>
> Carrol
Hi Carrol. Charles’ comment made sense to me, but the whole discussion is too abstract for me to want to pursue it.
>
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> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Marx : Not doubt thyself
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>> On Apr 15, 2016, at 7:24 AM, Charles Brown <cb31450 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Why, then, was one of Marx's favorite mottoes, 'Doubt Everything'?
>>
>> ///
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>> Not doubt thyself . Where does Marx , Engels or Lenin doubt themselves in
> a published work ? The classic Marxist texts are all in very certain and
> _authoritative_ voices, not as Engels calls it , shamefaced materialist
> self-doubt. Marx ruthlessly criticizes all that exists _in objective
> reality_not in his own subjectivity of his intellectual maturity. Hell Im
> older than Marx was when he died. I'm long past the youthful necessity to
> investigate a variety of philosophies , arts and sciences. I gave up
> philosophical agnosticism 35 years ago after subscribing to it in college
> for 15 years . Also, as a lawyer , Doctor of jurisprudence , I assume
> certainty of social theories all the time. Jurisprudence is the model for
> science. Scientists get "law" , their central concept from guess who ?
> LAWyers.
>
> Like.
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