From: Tony Tinker (TonyTinker@msn.com)
Date: Wed Nov 06 2002 - 11:31:22 EST
Down to mere details (back to blue) Jerry: Tony Tinker Then we are in more agreement than it might seem since I also believe that a "real" understanding of phenomenon is socially constructed. Within a class society, all understandings are socially constructed. When examining the topic in question, Marx looked at how that subject was conceived in the minds of bourgeois agents, didn't he? After all, isn't an examination of the praxis of the bourgeoisie a part of the development of critique from a revolutionary perspective? Certainly: giving a valid account of bourgeois and other mentalities is a prerequisite to effective praxis. And yes, much of Marx's 'objectivist' rendering of economic phenomena makes perfect sense within that (political) logic. My caution is that this context is frequently forgotten by many branches of 'economistic' / 'deterministic' branches of contemporary Marxism. In solidarity, Jerry
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