From: antonio callari (antonio.callari@FANDM.EDU)
Date: Wed Dec 21 2005 - 13:34:15 EST
Hi Jerry, perhaps! Indeed, i think there may well be a tension in Marx. How could there not have been, really? And this, i think, implies that there are indeed different traditions within Marxism (each of which has its own history, conditions, consequences, rhetorics, etc.). Happy days to all! Antonio >Hi Antonio, > >Perhaps the genesis of the differences in perspective rests in part >with Marx's [19th Century] perspective on science. I think there is a >tension in Marx, which was never fully resolved, between a 'open' >perspective which recognizes and emphasizes uncertainty and >historical contingency and his oft-stated references to inevitability. > >btw (a message to _all_ listmembers): best wishes for the holidays >and the new year! > >In solidarity, Jerry > > >> 2. This approach is not reducible to "there is no reality out there, >> only interpretations." It is, if anything, understandable more as >> implying that "reality is complexily constituted and that the human >> part in it--interpreting, working, playing-- is part of that >> constitution" (something with scientific pedigree: the uncertainty >> principle; and Marxist pedigree as well: human beings make the world >> under conditions larger than themselves: the creation of class >> consciousness, the creation of a class in itself, the creation of >> socialism/communism). -- Antonio Callari Sigmund M. and Mary B. Hyman Professor of Economics F&M Local Economy Center P.O. Box 3003 713 College Avenue Lancaster PA 17604-3003 e-mail: acallari@fandm.edu phone: (717) 291-3947 FAX: (717) 291-4369
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