[Xmca-l] Re: Vygotsky,Marx, & summer reading

[Andy Blunden]

Wow! That's a radical claim, David! What other things (or 
events) are activities composed of??

And while you're at it, what other than commodities are 
units of capital composed of?

Andy

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Andy Blunden
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http://www.brill.com/products/book/origins-collective-decision-making 

On 22/08/2017 6:21 AM, David Kellogg wrote:
> Helena:
>
> Yes, the idea that activity is made up of actions, and that if we take away
> actions from activity nothing remains (Leontiev). To me, this is an
> admission that the whole is merely a sum of parts. Compare Vygotsky's
> thought experiment of structuring a game in such a way that we take away
> all the roles and we see that abstract rules remain (Chapter Seven in* "Mind
> in Society")*.
>
>