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Re: Book review: Dialectical method



On Fri, 25 Mar 1994 14:35:25 -0800 Jim Lawler said:
>But for
>Mattick, Marx's dialectical method is a critique of ideology, rather
>than a method of theory construction (Smith) or an expression of
>capitalistic alienation (Arthur).

Can't Marx's method be *all three*, i.e., a critique of ideology in
order to construct theory (partly out of the non-ideological
components of previous  theories), including a theory of capitalistic
alienation??

in pen-l solidarity,

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