Re: Welcoming Stan Goff Out of Marxism

[Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/3/06, Angelus Novus <fuerdenkommunismus@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> --- Doyle Saylor <doylesaylor@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I don't think it takes much for Marx to be relevant.
>
> I never said it did.  I wish people would stop
> equating Marx with Marxism.  The poor soul doesn't
> deserve it.
>
> > Your computer metaphor is too restrictive.  All of
> > the above really are
> > about the larger connection process.
>
> If you intend to say that all things are kind of in
> someway interconnected, then sure, I don't disagree
> with this.  Totality is a useful notion.  I think the
> Marxian critique of political economy can, and must,
> be integrated into a wider theory about modernity that
> would integrate insights about western rationality,
> gender, the construction of racial and national
> identity, etc.

If that's the case, though, aren't you just quibbling with the name?
By now, in the minds of many self-identified Marxists (if not in many
sects), it's roughly what you describe that stands for Marxism.
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