Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 20:08:45 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: Rookie question -- thanks!



Well, I don't know much about his political views. His account in Feudal
Society is clearly materialist history. --jks

On Tue, 8 Oct 1996 mkarim-AT-moses.culver.edu wrote:

> Justin, 
> Also... do you consider Marc Bloch a Marxist?
> Manjur
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> On Mon, 7 Oct 1996 20:49:36 -0400 (EDT, Justin Schwartz wrote:
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> >Since I see you're a fRench lit person I utter a word of warning: French
> >Marxism is a depressing business. There's the now unfashionable (highly)
> >existential Marxism (Sartre, Merleau Ponty, etc.): it's pretty obscure,
> >although M-P is always worth reading; he's the best of them. ALthusser and
> >his crowd, now also unfashionable, were very infliential for a while and I
> >suppose that at some point, given your interests, you will have to get a
> >grip on him, but I for one find him singularly unrewarding. Then therea re
> >the old-CPers: Henri Lefevre, Roger Gauraudy, not impressive. The French
> >Marxist historians like Marc Bloc, ALnbert Soboul, and Georges LeFebre are
> >a much better bunch. I do9n't know what happened to French philosophy.
> >Alfter Descartes and Bayle it's pretty much downhill. German and
> >Anglo-AMerican Marxism, with the odd Hungarian and Italian thrown in, not
> >to mention early Russian Marxism, are where the action's at. Oh! There's
> >one guy who writes in French but is Brazilian by birth who is very much
> >worth reading: Michael Lowy. Read everything by him you can.
> >
> >--JUstin
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> >On Mon, 7 Oct 1996, Keith Alan Sprouse wrote:
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> >> I'd like to those who took the time to reply to my post for their very
> >> helpful suggestions.  And now it's time to start reading...
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