[Critical-Realism] Breaking news:Copernican breakthrough in the social sciences

["Mervyn Hartwig" <mh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

I have now had the opportunity to read the full text of Fred Zaman's 'A Critical-Realist Theory of America' and have no hesitation in announcing that I have changed my mind about it as completely as Fred changed his when he converted from postmodernism to critical realism. It puts forward a comprehensive Marxist critical realist analysis of the course of US history, underpinned by a qualitatively new CR systems-theoretical approach to the study of the sociosphere, which absents the absence in our consciousness of class struggle and a capitalist conspiracy at the level of real transfactual mechanics which has dominated America since the mid-seventeenth century, thus serving as the basis of a new and truly radical and speedy vanguard's way forward to a 'new American Revolution'.

The theory is unquestionably itself a revolutionary break-through. Fred himself has hailed it as a Copernican Revolution in the social sciences, but this is far too modest. Having effectively deconstructed Newtonian physics in his postmodernist phase (itself a truly Copernican achievement), Fred now reconstructs it as the basis of an entirely new philosophy, social theory and theory of geo-history. Only a Newton, Marx, Freud and Einstein rolled up into one could carry off such an achievement. Throw away your Bhaskar and read Zaman.

On the basis of this stunning performance we can confidently expect the meteoric rise of our man Nostromo (deep entrist) through the ranks of the United States Air Force. Critical realism will then be truly in command of the intellectual high ground. Yea!

Mervyn 
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