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Tom Cod wrote: > > I mean, we could > survive the end of computers, but the failure of harvests would be a lot > harder to cope with. A plow, a rake, a stone pestle for grinding grain are as necessary as the grain. And even the neolithic versions of those were as much part of industry as are computers. The technology that makes farming possible has to be degveloped BEFORE farming can develop. In any case, the very first 'products' of farming were plague, starvation, social hierarchies, and oppression. Oh yes, and it brought severe arthritis to the women of the early neolithic period in the Middle East. It took most of the day to grind the grain for that evening's meal, and that labor required knealing. This attempt to rank what is crucial and what is not is a bum's game. It tells us nothing about human social relations. Carrol ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
