From: Jerry Levy (Gerald_A_Levy@MSN.COM)
Date: Sun Mar 26 2006 - 09:07:43 EST
Hi Mike L, > Characteristically, rather than examining my evidence and reasoning, > Albritton declares this to be 'theory as wish-fulfillment and not a theory > as rigorous analysis of capitalism' and proceeds to erupt in Althusserian > outrage over 'humanism' and 'essentialism'. There's no surprise here--- > the Uno-Sekine conception of pure capitalism at its very core rejects any > suggestion that capitalism contains the seeds of its own destruction; its > purpose is to present capitalism 'as if it were a self-perpetuating entity' > (Uno, 1980: 125). I don't really grasp the connection (wedding) that you are trying to make between Uno-theory and Althusserian theory -- as condensed in your referring to Rob Albritton as "Rob Althusser." You lost me: when and where have Althusserians advanced a "conception of pure capitalism" as if capitalism was a "self-perpetuating entity"? Shouldn't Althusser's conception of overdetermination and antagonism towards "Hegelianisms" tell us that Uno-theory (in which basic theory is separated from stages theory) and Althusserian theory are quite distinct? In solidarity, Jerry
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