Charles Brown wrote:
> The goal is not the end of the development of human society. New contradictions will drive that development. Contradiction and change are eternal.
Just a couple of footnotes to this. "Eternal" is best relegated to the realm of theology: what it suggests or names is a timeless present. "Development" is also a tricky word/concept. Note that its current use tends to be "growth" or improvement. But while change and reality are synonyms, change for either better or worse is contingent. There was not much change in the first 100,000 years of human history -- might that state of relative stagnation be something humans (once in control of their own social relations) will strive for? Again, just a caution against writing recipes for the cookshops of the future. Such recipes tend to (implicitly) posit some constant in human history which in fact dissolves history. Hegel's idea. Christian salvation. Pseudo-marxist contradiction of relations of production with forces of production (productivism) as in Cohen.
Carrol