From: glevy@PRATT.EDU
Date: Thu Mar 29 2007 - 15:34:08 EDT
Hi Dogan: You cited Luxemburg in her paper "Back to Adam Smith" [Zuruck auf Adam Smith] as claiming that *impartiality* is fundamental to the scientific method and that the 'methodological principle' of impartiality is related to the 'ethical principle of honesty' (bottom of page 3). Did she claim, though, that the theory advanced by Marx, Engels, and Marxists -- including herself -- was based on this 'methodological principle' of impartiality? Isn't there necessarily a (for lack of a better term) tension between a theory which claims to be impartial and at the same time is said to represent a particular revolutionary and class perspective? Isn't a 'partisan impartial scientist' an oxymoron? In solidarity, Jerry
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