From: Rakesh Bhandari (rakeshb@STANFORD.EDU)
Date: Wed Sep 03 2003 - 03:21:05 EDT
>A comrade sent me this comment > > <<Until we write the canonical book on mechanical materialism, utopian and >scientific, we need to find a way to close the gap in the reading list between >mid/late 19th century & mid/late 20th century materialism. >I feel we need books on classic and contemporary struggles on the list but my >reading stops somewhere in the mid 1980's. Does anyone write good stuff on >revolution/transition in the new world order beyond the tedious >moralising humanism of the anti-globalisers?>> > >Does anyone have any suggestions on this. Paul, not quite clear as to what is being requested--a book on the doctine of materialism or a book on recent social struggles. As for the latter, may I recommend that your comrade use a search engine to look up the names of Peter Waterman and Rohini Hensman. Both have steered clear of moralising humanism. Here's a start: http://www.southasia-inreview.com/curr_edition/essays/hensman.htm http://www.psa.ac.uk/cps/1994/hens.pdf http://www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/agp/free/wsf/waterman_poa.htm If your comrade does read them, would be interested in his comments. Yours, Rakesh
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