Sam Pawlett wrote:
> Charles Brown wrote:
>
> > Historical materialism>
>
> Hi Charles,
> I disagree here. The initial premise of hm is that everyone must
> satisfy their biological needs and engage in production to do so, so as
> long as people must do that, hm applies and will apply in a
> post-capitalist society. For how else is one living in post-capitalist
> or socialist society to be able to understand the society she lives in
> from the particular historical vantage point she stands in?
All tinkering with the future beyond what is necessary for the understanding of the present is (at best) ticklish. On what do you base your assumption that in all possible human social orders (including any in the future) it will be either necessary or (for that matter) possible for people to understand the society they live in? We need to understand capitalism out of our need to destroy it. If a social order does not necessitate its own destruction, then their might (for the people living in it) be far more interesting things to devote their minds to.
Carrol