Re: Diabolical and Histerical Materialism (was Re: [Marxism] Moderator'snote

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

"Carlos A. Rivera" wrote:
>
>
> So to repeat my question, why you consider what we jokingly call "Diabolical
> and Histerical Materialism"  a "banale platitude"?

Looked at as an article in a professional philosophy journal, it is
indeed a collection of platitudes that are not only banal but incorrect.
_And_ if one believes (as those condemned by events to the sidelines are
apt to believe) that political practice is to be deduced from precisely
correct premises, and that DHM is to be read as a collection of such
premises, then again it is indeed a collection of platitudes that are
not only banal and incorrect, but vicious.

But if you (a) see it as a collective study text for those directly
involved in political practice and (b) quite properly written at the
same level of sophistication as a 9th-grade civics text, then it is easy
to see it as every bit as useful as sks claims it to be in this post.

Carrol


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