James Devine writes: >> Seriously, the opposition arises because capitalism is a contradictory >> system. The underlying class antagonisms, imperial relations between >> countries, etc., etc. have reflections not only in actual struggle but >> also in the ideas of some people. It's true, as Marx and Engels wrote, >> that the dominant ideas of any time normally reflect the interests of >> the ruling class. But that doesn't say anything about the non-dominant >> ideas, which reflect the interests of other classes and the streses >> and strains of the systme.
This does not appear to explain why children of bourgeois occcasionally oppose the existing economic order, or why children of the working class support it. Since communism is not a contradictory by definition, I assume opposition is not possible, except as a mental disorder? David Shemano
