So, the question is, who gives a damn what Marx thought, or read? How many hundreds of millions of people were killed in his name? -----Original Message----- From: Harry Binswanger [mailto:hb@xxxxxxxx] Sent: Sun 3/30/2003 5:18 PM To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx Cc: Subject: Re: off topic: query to editors (Trotsky) >Carl's remark (27 Mar) on Trotsky's ruling out the first person in >historical narration, "Nothing Bolshie about it," is true enough -- >perhaps excepting certain theoretical Marxist biases against aggrandizing >indivuals that it may reflect. Well, actually, now that you've asked ... there are other theoretical Marxist biases: "Consciousness is therefore from the very beginning a social product, and remains so as long as men exist at all." (Marx and Engels, _The German Ideology_ (International Publishers, 1947), p. 35. Michael Berliner wrote: "Without openly attacking objectivity, Marxism destroys the concept of objectivity at its roots ... Since there are [for dialectical materialism] no principles of logic that hold for all men, independent of their economic class, there is no way to evaluate any claim to objective truth." ("Marxism Versus Objectivity," _The Objectivist Forum_, April 1980, p. 7 & p. 10). Harry (not in a tizzy) Binswanger Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx≪winmail.dat≫