--- On Sat, 2/14/09, Charles Brown <cdb1...@prodigy.net> wrote: > From: Charles Brown <cdb1...@prodigy.net> > Subject: kingdom of necessity > To: cdb1...@prodigy.net > Date: Saturday, February 14, 2009, 8:31 PM > From Anti-Duhring > > With the seizing of the means of production > by society, production of > commodities is done away with, and, simultaneously, the > mastery of the > product over the producer. Anarchy in > social production is replaced by > systematic, definite organization. The struggle for > individual > existence disappears. Then, for the > first time, man, in a certain > sense, is finally marked off from the rest of the animal > kingdom, and > emerges from mere animal conditions > of existence into really human > ones. The whole sphere of the conditions of life which > environ man, > and which have hitherto ruled man, > now comes under the dominion and > control of man, who for the first time becomes the real, > conscious > lord of nature, because he has now > become master of his own social > organization. The laws of his own social action, hitherto > standing > face-to-face with man as laws of > Nature foreign to, and dominating > him, will then be used with full understanding, and so > mastered by > him. Man's own social organization, > hitherto confronting him as a > necessity imposed by Nature and history, now becomes the > result of his > own free action. The extraneous > objective forces that have, hitherto, > governed history,pass under the control of man himself. > Only from that > time will man himself, more and > more consciously, make his own history > — only from that time will the social causes set in > movement by him > have, in the main and in a constantly > growing measure, the results > intended by him. It is the ascent of man from the kingdom > of necessity > to the kingdom of freedom _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
