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Re: the Communist Manifesto: critique by Andre Gunder Frank 16 March 2002 00:14 UTC |
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From: Jack Goldstone > University of California - Davis > jagoldstone@ucdavis.edu > > > Responding to Gunder Frank (14 March 2002): > > Dear Gunder, > > I wholly agree -- many years ago I wanted to jettison the term > "capitalism," but people cling to it like a lifeboat in a storm. > In this case quotation of the original is more than apt, if only because I had intended to add a note about that to my own: THAT is where virtually ALL my friends/comrades/colleagues and I part company for the very reason that Jack says, only moreso: I get the impression that the clinging to "capitalism" by those how reject it [!] is by no means an only an ''academic'' or theoretical or political matter. NO, it is highly [intimately?] personal as well. The ''clinging'' as to a life-boat in a storm is a defense of their very personal idendity, which is tied to their - like mine! - life-long dedication to combatting ''capitalism''. So to admit - or even to consider that maybe - there is none and never was any such challenges one's identity in perhaps having to admit having mistakenly followed Don Quijote tilting at will-of-the-whisp windmills. Perhaps that is not a problem for me personally, because I know that I have made lots of other mistakes and because I have and need no identity to defend. Lest any reader wish to propose that we leave such personal matters out of public discussion, permit me to note that this is a case - borrowing from feminists - where the 'personal is political'- and theoretical as well as''academic'in the non-pejorative sense of the word -- if any! respectfully submitted gunder frank On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Patrick Manning wrote: > Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 16:45:20 -0600 > From: Patrick Manning <manning@neu.edu> > Reply-To: H-NET List for World History <H-WORLD@H-NET.MSU.EDU> > To: H-WORLD@H-NET.MSU.EDU > Subject: the Communist Manifesto: critique > > From: Jack Goldstone > University of California - Davis > jagoldstone@ucdavis.edu > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ANDRE GUNDER FRANK Senior Fellow Residence World History Center One Longfellow Place Northeastern University Apt. 3411 270 Holmes Hall Boston, MA 02114 USA Boston, MA 02115 USA Tel: 617-948 2315 Tel: 617 - 373 4060 Fax: 617-948 2316 Web-page:csf.colorado.edu/agfrank/ e-mail:franka@fiu.edu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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