Tuesday 23 June 2009

A Magical Injection of 'Practice'

However couched, the facility of generic allegations of theoreticism, academicism, substitutionism, and so on, against Marxist intellectuals is in inverse proportion to its utility. It substitutes moralistic deprecation for materialist explanation of an objective state of affairs, incorrigible by any amount of voluntarism (as if a magical injection of 'practice' could remedy a distemper of 'theory').
Gregory Elliott

1 comment:

Nate said...

I rewrote the quote:

"However couched, the defense of Marxist intellectuals against allegations of theoreticism, academicism, substitutionism, and so on, is in inverse proportion to its utility. It substitutes moralistic deprecation for materialist explanation of an objective state of affairs"

Is this version any less true?