[governance] Parminder's exchange with Bertrand

[William Drake]

MM

On Feb 26, 2010, at 9:36 PM, Milton L Mueller wrote:

>>  How do you legitimize wars and get soldiers to fight and kill people they don't know without appeal to things like "patriotism," duty to society and the state, cultural or racial differences? This has nothing to do with Marxist historicism, which posits laws of history independent of individuals. 

This bit of totalizing reductionism is based on what, the Cliff Notes Guide to Marxism?   Read inter alia EP Thompson's Poverty of Theory and the debates between him, Perry Anderson and Louis Althusser.  The agent-structure problem is widely recognized in Marxist theory to be a wee bit more complex.  This whole debate is fetishing a false binary.

Dialectically,

Bill____________________________________________________________
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