Paul Cockshott
11th March 2012, 23:26
Alan Woods recently wrote a book Reformism or Revolution criticising the German/Mexican marxist writer Heinz Dieterich.
Reading the Woods book, one can see that Woods quite explicitly sees himself in the role of Engels attacking Duhring ( this is given away by the title of the microsoft word produced file you can download from the web).
The book Woods wrote is very wide ranging and much of it is unexceptional, but I think that many of his criticisms of Dieterich are unfair and based on a forced misreading of what Dieterich says. This is all the easier to do for his English language readership since almost none of Dieterich's work is available in English - it being originally in either German or Spanish.
For people who have read Woods but may not have read Dieterich in the original, I have written a critical review of Woods book here
http://glasgow.academia.edu/paulcockshott/Papers/1522267/Review_of_Alan_Woods_book_on_Dieterich
It has been pointed out that the above site wants you to give your email address when logging in to access documents so Ihave also put it up on scribd
http://www.scribd.com/doc/85016500/Review-of-Alan-Woods
Reading the Woods book, one can see that Woods quite explicitly sees himself in the role of Engels attacking Duhring ( this is given away by the title of the microsoft word produced file you can download from the web).
The book Woods wrote is very wide ranging and much of it is unexceptional, but I think that many of his criticisms of Dieterich are unfair and based on a forced misreading of what Dieterich says. This is all the easier to do for his English language readership since almost none of Dieterich's work is available in English - it being originally in either German or Spanish.
For people who have read Woods but may not have read Dieterich in the original, I have written a critical review of Woods book here
http://glasgow.academia.edu/paulcockshott/Papers/1522267/Review_of_Alan_Woods_book_on_Dieterich
It has been pointed out that the above site wants you to give your email address when logging in to access documents so Ihave also put it up on scribd
http://www.scribd.com/doc/85016500/Review-of-Alan-Woods