RE: [Marxism] RE problems with 'the making of the english working class'

["Mark Lause" <MLause@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Two points for Ilyenkova@xxxxxxx:

Isn't comparing Rediker and Linebaugh's, _The many-headed Hydra_ to
Thompson's _Making of the English Working Class_  a bit like comparing
apples and oranges?  The latter is going to be "more parochial" because
its subject is about England rather than the Transatlantic.  There are
plenty of problems posed by positing a trans-Atlantic working class,
btw, not the least of which is that matter of how it perceives itself.

Thompson argued that class has to do with how people process their
EXPERIENCED social realities.  Labeling that as "idealism" rather makes
me think, with Karl, that I am not a Marxist.


ML





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