"Wholeness" indeed. Is this an advertisement for Stoned Wheat Thins?
It should be obvious to anyone with a functioning intellect that the only way forward from the present crisis is through the revolutionary transformation of the existing complex advanced industrial infrastructure, not its destruction. There's no little grass shack or cottage with nine bean rows to retreat to. We've been all through that. The late, brilliant, fallible David Graeber wrote (re "bullshit jobs"): > > > > The answer clearly isn’t economic: it’s moral and political. The ruling > class has figured out that a happy and productive population with free > time on their hands is a mortal danger (think of what started to happen > when this even began to be approximated in the ’60s). > > But even Graeber supports the idea of being "productive"--lamentably weak, since he seems to mean nothing more by it than the direct production of physical objects, but still a concession to the material necessity of production. The "neo-primitivist" pile of steaming mere assertions is so gloriously free, philosophical, and enlightened that it scorns even this. You can't be a Marxist and a really tuned-in hippy at the same time. Likewise, being "wisely eclectic" and "giving Marx his due in spite of his errors" isn't Marxism. Why bother with Marxism when you could just set up a website and sell holy weetabix and vibrating crystals instead? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#1471): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/1471 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/76796153/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
