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To: D. Long who wrote (60529)	12/8/2002 3:20:47 AM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 281500

That's definitely one view, Derek. There is another interpretive tradition which bounces around. You can see it, as I suggested in my post, in Lenin's attempts to justify the revolutionary activity within a noncapitalist economy. You can also see it in historical work such as E. P. Thompson's attempts to work with cultural Marxism in which both the culture of the working class is a variable with more than limited autonomy vis-a-vis the economic and one in which, as Thompson puts it, is created by the activities of the working class. You can also see it in attempts to work off the structural Marxism of the 60s, Althusser, etc. in which the criticism was that it denied agency. So you're up at work, I gather. Or have the weekend off but have to keep the same hours. I'm up thanks to the cat. Woke me up climbing into the bed; couldn't get back to sleep; so I'm reading one of Sharon Penman's historical fiction books; and checking the thread just before going back to bed.