From: Jurriaan Bendien (adsl675281@TISCALI.NL)
Date: Sat Dec 02 2006 - 07:00:15 EST
Hi Rakesh, Frankly I do not know, though I could find out. I was referring to Jerry's important role over the years in hosting, moderating and inspiring a community of scholars who have different points of view, and engage in a kind of Socratic dialogue about the legacy of Marx & Engels, on-list and off-list (including conferences). I realise it is technically quite easy for an academic to jack up an Internet mailing list, but it is another thing to stimulate and maintain good discussions on that list which do not simply preach to the converted, which people find interesting, and which encourage a kind of participation with honorable motives that does not degenerate into flaming, rancour and animosity. It requires a basic mutual respect. Marx's concept of the "forces and relations of production" is rooted in the idea that humans are creatures who both "create and relate". Undoubtedly the creative aspect has a purely technical component to it. But beyond technical relations between producer and product, there are also social and communicative relations to consider. And in reality humans can hardly create without relating, and relate without creating. For creativity to flourish, it is important to be mindful of how we relate. Jurriaan
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