Marxism-Thaxis] On necessity and law in human history
Charles Brown cbrown at michiganlegal.org
Wed Feb 1 07:41:35 MST 2006
Previous message: [Marxism-Thaxis] Dennett's Breaking the Spell
Next message: [Marxism-Thaxis] www.darwin.ws
Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author
There are two senses of necessity here: one in the sense of
determinism, the other in the sense of what is needed, or else. If
only the first followed from the second.
As for the workers' seeing necessity in the first sense as a spur to
action, this was an argument justifying the Second
Ralph Dumain
There are two senses of necessity here: one in the sense of
determinism, the other in the sense of what is needed, or else. If
only the first followed from the second.
^^^
CB: Nice thought. I'll think about it over the weekend. I think there is
third sense of necessity as
The Crisis Of '08 Reading List
(Go to link below for embedded links.)
http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=6920fba5-bfa6-4dad-b54e-d0084066ba45
The Crisis Of '08 Reading List
The best books to help you make sense of Marx, Keynes, the Great
Depression, and how we got where we are now.
Necessity as the outcome of a law system, means examining those things
peculiar to the system one is examining. And the basis upon which the system
becomes self perpetuating. The progressive accumulation of productive forces
operates as law of consequence - necessity, or the law of
Will the Obama stimulus plan simply concentrate on Middle America and
create jobs for them while ignoring the roughly 40% of the working class that
constitutes the poorest workers? I am not against middle America, but they are
not the only suffering section of America. The expansion of the
I think those two words 'communism' and 'welfare' will scare some
people away. However, I think if Americans could see how much freer
they would be if they had guaranteed access to health care, retirement
and income (such as a guaranteed income when unemployed, a living
minimum wage etc.), they
