Re: [OPE-L] Overdetermination

[antonio callari <antonio.callari@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jerry,
perhaps! Indeed, i think there may well be a tension in Marx. How
could there not have been, really?  And this, i think, implies that
there are indeed different traditions within Marxism (each of which
has its own history, conditions, consequences, rhetorics, etc.).
Happy days to all!
Antonio


> Hi Antonio,
>
> Perhaps the genesis of the differences in perspective rests in part
> with Marx's [19th Century]  perspective on science. I think there is a
> tension in Marx, which was never fully resolved, between a 'open'
> perspective which recognizes and emphasizes uncertainty  and
> historical contingency and his oft-stated references to inevitability.
>
> btw (a message to _all_ listmembers): best wishes for the holidays
> and the new year!
>
> In solidarity, Jerry
>
>
> >  2. This approach is not reducible to "there is no reality out there,
> >  only interpretations." It is, if anything, understandable more as
> >  implying that "reality is complexily constituted and that the human
> >  part in it--interpreting, working, playing-- is part of that
> >  constitution" (something with scientific pedigree: the uncertainty
> >  principle; and Marxist pedigree as well: human beings make the world
> >  under conditions larger than themselves: the creation of class
> >  consciousness, the creation of a class in itself, the creation of
> >  socialism/communism).


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