Rosa Lichtenstein

Firstly, you are really not good at name-calling, merely childish and obnoxious. Secondly, I see you're still avoiding the central issue of how you are once again in the position of refuting Marx and incapable of addressing the implications of this for your interpretation of Marx's method.

You are the one who began throwing insults around, claiming I would sulk, rather than addressing my question. Meanwhile, it is clear that I have no interest in defending "abstractionism", but the use of abstraction in theoretical thinking. The notion you are peddling like some second rate snake oil salesman that the process of abstraction has anything to do with mysticism is laughable and pathetic. Meanwhile, you are once again in the position of refuting Marx and incapable of addressing the implications of this for your interpretation of Marx's method.

Ah, good to see you back. Your computer is restored or did you buy a new one?

heh. you're definitely more of a mystic than I am...invited by who, exactly?

Why thank you. I do admit it feels good, but I've got the feeling it'll mean extra stuff for me to do...

do you ever post on anything besides dialectics? like ever?

Ok, thanks for your message.

Yes, I believe in Dialectical Materialism, but I certainly will not ever become hostile to anti-dialectician like you, since for me it is just a purely academic debate, and for a pragmatist like me it's not even very important, not when compared with real serious activism on the ground.

Personally I don't really understand why you spend so much energy and effort in attacking dialectics, but I respect your intellectual freedom and right to do so.