Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Alan Carling's synopsis of *The Proof ofthe Pudding: Reason and Value in Social Evolution*

2002-02-20 Thread Charles Brown
Mr. Carling, If I might comment further on your thesis, I think you ignore the first clause of Marx and Engels famous aphorism below in your development of a sort of absolute "unintentionality" in the development of human society. M and E say people "make their own history...". This implies so

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Alan Carling's synopsis of *The Proof ofthe Pudding: Reason and Value in Social Evolution*

2002-02-18 Thread Charles Brown
Jim, I read this paper when you posted it on Marxmail. Thank you again. I think the answer to Carling's question in the following passage is , in part, that language, symbolic behavior, what cultural anthropologist generalize to culture, is a mechanism by which acquired characteristics can be