Gender & Free Speech (was Re: LM, Louis, and Free Speech)

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Hi Catherine:
>>#  On "nature": Keep in mind that in Marx's later works, the word "natural"
>>is best understood to mean "spontaneously grown, not consciously
>>determined, etc," in contradiction to the usual valorization of nature as
>>eternal, unchanging "essence" beneath the artificial "appearance."
>>According to Marx of _The Grundrisse_, etc., human beings have historically
>>evolved, creating (pace the young-Hegelian Marx) _unanticipated_ new needs
>>and desires, and there is no room for nostalgic yearning for the Eden of
>>natural rights & natural relations between the sexes -- the fantastic
>>origin that can only exist in the Robinsonades.
>>
>>*****   Capital's ceaseless striving towards the general form of wealth
>>drives labour beyond the limits of its natural paltriness, and thus creates
>>the material elements for the development of the rich individuality which
>>is as all-sided in its production as in its consumption, and whose labour
>>also therefore appears no longer as labour, but as the full development of
>>activity itself, in which natural necessity in its direct form has
>>disappeared; because of a historically created need has taken the place of
>>the natural one.  (Marx, _The Grundrisse_)   *****
>
>But this does still presume, doesn't it, that were fixed natural
>necessities (and relations) at some point, into which relations/necessities
>history has intervened, but which still form an unquestionable foundation
>for human society and human needs?

What "fixed natural necessities (and relations)" are you thinking about?
Could you be more specific?  Might be interesting to debate....

Yoshie