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Charles Brown wrote: Of course, "the typical individual" is an oxymoron anyway, in the sense that "individual" is mean to convey some sense that every individual is unique. The Grundrisse passage criticizing "Raobinsonades" doesn't reject the idea of "the typical individual", an idea that Marx himself makes use of, e.g. in his conception of the capitalist "passions". ^^^ CB: Yeah, that paradox has some joking in it The issue is more precisely that human individuals are not "isolated individuals" ( as Marx terms it, not "independent individuals", are not "natural individuals" in the sense that their economic behavior is an expression of Social Darwinist type naturally selfishness. This message has been scanned for malware by SurfControl plc. www.surfcontrol.com _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
