Re: Re: Re: Question Romain K.

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Romain Kroes wrote:
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> Because "historical materialism" has become a label.

I don't get it. "Literary Criticism" has become a label. "Frying Bacon"
has become a label. We still don't usually put them in scare quotes.

And if your point is that it names lots of contradictory things -- is
ambiguous: so is every other word and phrase in the language, all of
which need to be defined in context. So what are you getting at?

Consider a book title: Democracy Against Capitalism: Renewing Historical
Materialism. Would you argue that Meiksins Wood should have entitled her
book, _Democracy Against Capitalism_ Renewing "Historical Materialism_"?
But that wouldn't do, There are other labels in that title. Perhaps she
should have entitled it _"Democracy" "Against" "Capitalism": "Renewing"
"Historical Materialism_." Would that satisfy you? Or should the last
two words have been "'Historical' 'Materialism'"?

Carrol