From: John Holloway (johnholloway@PRODIGY.NET.MX)
Date: Sat Nov 24 2007 - 20:23:50 EST
Thank you very much, but no thanks. John El 24/11/07 13:33, "Jurriaan Bendien" <adsl675281@TISCALI.NL> escribió: > Progressive sociologist Ulrich Beck, who is maybe a bit like Germany's John > Holloway, has published some "theses" on the world situation here > http://www.signandsight.com/features/1603.html > > He writes among other things: > > "It is a question of inverting Marx's basic idea: it is not that being > determines consciousness, but instead that consciousness maximizes new > possibilities for action (cosmopolitan perspective) by players who are > engaged in global political power relations. There exists a royal road to > the transformation of one's own power situation. But first you must change > your world-view. A sceptical, realistic view of the world - but the same > time a cosmopolitan one! It is an irony of history that the world-view > discredited by the collapse of communism in Europe has now been adopted by > the victors of the Cold War. The neoliberals have elevated the weaknesses in > Marx's thought to their own creed, namely his stubborn underestimation of > nationalistic and religious movements, and his one-dimensional, linear model > of history." > > I'm in favour of Beck's cosmopolitan idea, but I think it is disappointing > that a leading sociologist gets it so wrong about Marx. It is doubly > disappointing that most of these ideas are just a rehash of old themes. > > Jurriaan
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