"rc-am" <rcollins at netlink.com.au> 03/10/99 01:10PM >>> which raises the question: is communism defined by the abolition of private property or the abolition of the value form? the latter is certainly not reducible to the former.
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Angela,
Would you elaborate on this ? I agree with you that Marxism is not a technological determinist doctrine. As _The Manifesto of the Communist Party_ emphasizes, all history is a history of class struggles. Class struggle determinism are RELATIONS of production determinism; or relations among people with respect to technology as determinitive. Private property is a certain form of relation of among people regarding ownership of the means of production. Technology is MEANS of production. By Marxism, socialism comes when the working class, a group of people, make it not when it is "automatically caused" by somekind of technology or means of production.
Charles Brown