I tried to upload a paper I drafted on the basis of historical materialism and its contradictions by neglecting the early Christian communist sect pointed out in Rothbard’s History of Economic Thought. I wanted to open discussion on the subject, does anyone know how I can put my paper up for some peer review?
What format is it in?
Its in word but I can find a way to convert it.
If you can export it as a PDF that would be good. IIRC you can add a PDF to your file library here (from your home community pages, it’s either media or files).
Then you should be able to insert stuff from your media library into a forum discussion.
Well tried to import it but its too big to add in.
I’ll break it up.
It just occurred to me that if you are going to all this trouble, maybe you should find out if anyone wants to read it.
If it is really long, people usually don’t have the attention span for that.
A valid point.
I would divide the actual paper into at least 2 or 3 parts / volumes, create a good abstract (or preface, intro, etc.) that summarizes the entire thing, & then make the abstract & volumes all separate PDF files.
That might ease the workload & make the entire thing more organized as well.
Although I haven’t really read anything on historical materialism, I would be interested in the paper regardless.
I would like to read it, Im always interested in refutations to marxist theory.
You might find it worthwhile to email it if there are a handful of interested parties who can proofread it.
Alternately, if you can email it, I can host it temporarily at NoTreason.com and you can link to it.
If that is amicable, let me know.
We do not set out from what men say, imagine, conceive, nor from men as narrated, thought of, imagined, conceived, in order to arrive at men in the flesh; but setting out from real, active men, and on the basis of their real life-process demonstrating the development of the ideological reflexes and echoes of this life-process. The phantoms formed in the brains of men are also, necessarily, sublimates of their material life-process, which is empirically verifiable and bound to material premises. Morality, religion, metaphysics, and all the rest of ideologies well as the forms of consciousness corresponding to these, thus no longer retain the semblance of independence. They have no history, no development; but men, developing their material production and their material intercourse, alter, along with this their actual world, also their thinking and the products of their thinking. It is not consciousness that determines life, but life that determines consciousness.
-Marx: German Ideology
The windmill gives you society with the feudal lord; the steam-mill, society with industrial capitalist. The same men who establish social relations conformably with their material productivity, produce also the principles, the ideas, the categories, conformably with their social relations. Thus these ideas, these categories, are no more eternal than the relations which they express
-Marx: Poverty of Philosophy
The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles”
-Marx: Communist Manifesto
The Rothbard essay “Marx as Religious Eschatologist” was rather good. Long though…
I was putting these quotes up for the ‘Austrian-Marxist-Anarchist’ who thinks that Marx didn’t imply history’s progress is caused solely by economic factors. But yes that is a good essay by Rothbard. Like of summary of his chapters on Marx.
I think you have ever so slightly misunderstood the quotes in question. They strike me far more as an advocation of structuralism than they suggest that economic factors are the only root of class struggle.
Structuralism is just the Political economcy outlook based on Marxist/Socialist values.
Send it to the Mises Institute Working Papers. Or post it on your website.
To anarchist cain:
Wrong, do I really need to explain why?
I would be interested.
Please explain.
Still waiting on that explaination.