50 Reviews

Gregor McLennan, Jean Grimshaw, Nöel Parker, Terry Eagleton, Nigel Ambrose, Graham McCann, Stuart Sim, Margaret Atack, John Tomlinson, Gregory Claeys, Andrew Dobson, Sean Sayers, Paul Bagguley, Neil Duxbury, John Fauvel and Richard Montgomery ~ RP 050 (Autumn 1988) ~ Reviews

REVIEWS I I I ~~~~~~t L———_ _ _ ~ ___ J THE HISTORICAL MATERIALISM DEBATE S. H. Rigby, Marxism and History: a Critical Introduction, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1987, 314pp., £29.95 hb. Derek Sayer, The Violence ofAbstraction: the Analytic F oundationsofHistoricaIMaterialism,Oxford,Blackwell, 1987,xiiiand 173pp., £22.50 hb. Alex Callinicos, Making History: Agency, Structure and Change in Social […]

On the Ethics of Revolution

Kai Nielsen ~ RP 006 (Winter 1973) ~ Commentary

became more apparent to him. Tern never acted wrongly ‘without feeling and suffering for it’. ~8 It will perhaps be evident to some readers that I am making a point parallel to the point which leads Wittgenstein to reject the possibility of ‘private’ assignments of names to referents. The parallel is cernplex, and hardly worth […]

Truth and Practice

Andrew Collier ~ RP 005 (Summer 1973) ~ Article

TRUTH AnD PRA[TI[E Andrew [allier of scientific enquiry and experiment, this is common ground not only of all Marxist theories, but of intelligent bourgeois theories as well. Peter Binns’ paper ‘The Marxist Theory of Truth’ in Radical Philosophy 4 exemplifies what seems to have become a new orthodoxy among Marxists, as well as many bourgeois […]