Re: Re: Hayek. Why???

[Jim Devine <jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 03:14 PM 7/18/00 +0000, you wrote:

> Jim D.
> > yeah, after all, in his POLITICAL ECONOMY, Lange states one of the crudest
> > statements of the technological-determinist version of the materialist
> > conception of history. He's a predecessor of GA Cohen, though less
> pretentious.
>
> It may be that the word "rationality"  throws you off balance,

your insults would impress me if you had something worthwhile to contribute.

> but Cohen's 1978 book is far from orthodox, or determinist in the old
> Marxist sense.

he uses the hifalutin' method of analytic philosophy to reproduce the worst
Marxist determinism (which was _never_ totally deterministic).

> ... Also I don't see why difficulty in understanding a book warrants
> calling its author "pretentious".

again, insults!

Michael, this guy deserves to be on pen-l much less than Neil does. But
neither of them need to be tossed off the list. That's what e-mail filters
are for.

Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine