>Yes, the Marxist view is that "social being determines consciousness".
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>That is very different from "being determines consciousness", which is a
>mechanically deterministic perspective that privileges the individual,
>either as biological mechanism on its own, or as a product of infantile
>psychodynamic conflicts with parents, especially mother.
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>Both viewpoints are mechanically determinist. Instead, we need to reaffirm
>that social being determines consciousness - and add that it determines
>non-consciousness as well.
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>Chris Burford
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How about self-determination?
Ted