I can't say, Jerry. I think it's possible (and sometimes desirable, or at least ok) for people to be eclectic; not to care about the theoretical/philosophical projects of others, to read openly and get interesting things, here and there, in any case; The thing is; I don't know what the case was with Gordon. antonio > > Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 16:48:45 +0100 >> From: Riccardo Bellofiore <bellofio@mail.cisi.unito.it> >> Subject: Re: [OPE-L:6185] Re: Lucio Colletti: 1924-2001 > >> At 9:56 -0500 16-11-2001, Gerald_A_Levy wrote: >> >Re [6171]: >> > >> >Antonio (and others): you contrasted the 'legacy' of Colletti to >> >that of Althusser. How then can you account for how some >> >notable Marxists, including the late David M. Gordon, were >> >influenced by both? What do you think that someone >> >sympathetic to an Althusserian perspective, like Gordon, was >> >able to get from Colletti's writings? >> > >> >In solidarity, Jerry >> >> well, both were anti-Hegelian (though in very different manners), both >were >> stressing the need for Marxism as Science etc. But really David Gordon was >> sympathetic to an Althusserian perspective? Was it relevant in his >economic >> writings? But I have two more serious (well, not so serious) answers: (i) >> it was fashionable at the time to quote them, which were translated in >> English thanks to NLR and NLR books; (ii) with few exceptions (of course, >> all the people on this list) I do not exclude, especially from economists, >> especially from Anglo-Saxon economists, some naiveté on issues of >> philosophical foundations. >> >> rb >> >> >> >> >> Riccardo Bellofiore >> Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche >> Via dei Caniana 2 >> I-24127 Bergamo, Italy >> e-mail bellofio@unibg.it, bellofio@cisi.unito.it >> tel: +39 035 277545 (direct) >> +39 035 277501 (secretary) >> fax: +39 035 277549 >> http://www.unibg.it/dse/homebellofiore.htm >> >> >> >>
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