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Re: Welcoming Stan Goff Out of Marxism

Angelus: 
A common mistake of Marxism is also assuming that
Marx's critique has any application outside of modern
industrial commodity-producing societies.


So what explains the transition from the Roman Empire to feudalism? I
myself find Perry Anderson most useful. What would you recommend?
H.G, Wells? Edward Gibbon?

The standard point of departure is usually the
interpretation of history as "the history of class
struggle."  So you then have these "Marxist histories
of Ancient Greece" or "Marxist histories of Feudalism"
or a Marxist account of this or that.


And what is wrong with that? Have you read any of these works? What
is wrong with them?

In terms of practical politics, assimilating an
ecological or feminist or anti-racist critique, you
have something that might be termed Modular Marxism.


Really? Is that what Origins of the Family or Marx's writings on the
soil fertility crisis amount to? Modular Marxism?

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