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[LJJW]

Hi all,

soon after being banned, Rosa asked me to sign on here. I've only just been able to do so.

I helped Rosa write some of her essays so she's asked me to continue the fight against irrationalism in Marxist theory.

I can't visit here very often but hope you'll all make me very welcome!

:)

L.

[Rusty Shackleford]

this should be interesting. welcome.

[Sun at Eight]

Cool. I hope you can "fight against irrationalism in Marxist theory" in a way that makes those threads more appealing to read. Not being able to visit here very often might be a very good start, since it will cut down on the wall of text spamming and constant insulting back and forths. No offence intended, since I felt that the style and frequency of the posts was what put some people off, not the content.

[Mr. Natural]

LJJW,
I just found revleft and have much catching up to do. I'm looking forward to discovering what you find "irrational" in Marxist theory. I have some rather minor criticisms, but believe Marx and Engels basically got capitalism and the human condition right.
Bertell Ollman's works on the materialist dialectic have been a recent revelation to me (see DANCE OF THE DIALECTIC, 2003). Ollman conclusively establishes that Marx's understanding of life and society and his materialist dialectic were based in the Hegelian philosophy of internal relations (world seen as internally related whole) and its abstraction process. This philosophy of internal relations is in amazing agreement with modern science's understanding of life's patterns, processes, and organization.
In short, Marxism and the materialist dialectic are natural! Red must now be organized as green. Human ecology must be organized as natural ecology, and the new sciences make this possible.
I'm looking forward to a discussion of our mutual obsessions. Venceremos!

[Ele'ill]

Hello.

[LJJW]

Mr Natural wrote:


I just found revleft and have much catching up to do. I'm looking forward to discovering what you find "irrational" in Marxist theory. I have some rather minor criticisms, but believe Marx and Engels basically got capitalism and the human condition right.

Bertell Ollman's works on the materialist dialectic have been a recent revelation to me (see DANCE OF THE DIALECTIC, 2003). Ollman conclusively establishes that Marx's understanding of life and society and his materialist dialectic were based in the Hegelian philosophy of internal relations (world seen as internally related whole) and its abstraction process. This philosophy of internal relations is in amazing agreement with modern science's understanding of life's patterns, processes, and organization.
In short, Marxism and the materialist dialectic are natural! Red must now be organized as green. Human ecology must be organized as natural ecology, and the new sciences make this possible.

I'm looking forward to a discussion of our mutual obsessions. Like Rosa, I hope to be able to show that dialectics is irrational. I'd post links to where she has shown this at RevLeft (and her site) but I'm not allowed to post them yet.

And I'm sorry to have to say this, but Bertell Ollman's book is not all that good. But this thread is not the place to go into details on this.