Re: [Marxism] Forwarded from Anthony (reply to Julio Huato)

["Julio Huato" <juliohuato@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Louis Proyect wrote:

> Some have speculated that this is attributable to the rather powerful
> contingent of Spanish CP intellectuals who made a home in the Mexican
> academy after the rise of fascism.

Can you name the speculators?  I'm just curious.

> In my opinion, the Brenner-Laclau-Leys line of reasoning has enormous
> affinities with Second International and Stalinist stagism, which is often
> evident in Julio's interventions around questions such as NAFTA, etc.
> Brenner, after all, is the first to admit that he is a disciple of Maurice
> Dobb, an outstanding CP theoretician who never really understood combined
> and uneven development.

IMO, when you reject "Stalinist stagism" -- insistently conflating it with
the Hegelian (Second International) view of capitalist development and
communism, that has been amply criticized by Western (and Eastern) Marxists
-- you're actually rejecting Karl Marx's fundamental theses on historical
materialism.

I don't think Marx's views should be adopted dogmatically.  In every
significant twist of capitalist history, the classical views should be
revisited and retested.  I don't see a way around that.  But they shouldn't
be treated nonchalantly as if they had been refuted definitively.

> I myself find little reason nowadays to try to answer him, since he is
> rather hardened on these questions and since there are so few comrades who
> are inclined to take this seriously.

I hope I'm not hardened or dogmatic.  I try to be open to good argument.
What I don't like (this is not to Lou, but to others) is when people
question my motives because (1) I am a "professor of economics," (2) my
personal literary style is bad, or (3) they don't like the ideas themselves
but have a hard time limiting themselves to criticizing them.

> That being said, these arguments do enjoy wide support in academia.

Where?

Julio

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