>Taking a second look at Doug's questions, it seems that they are just
>another version of the technological determinism of many 2d & 3d
>international marxists. A _really_ vulgar marxism. Build the forces of
>production and you can get to socialism in a rocking chair.
Right. That's exactly what I said:
>But how completely can you separate "technology, medicine,
>knowledge, etc." from the modes of social organization - large-scale
>enterprise, to name just one - that make it possible? And how can
>you lift the bits you like from non- or precapitalist societies?
>Isn't it fetishizing both technology and social organization to
>treat them as so easily separable, even in thought?
Maybe I'm just so vulgar that I can't see the vulgarity as clearly as you do. After all, I got a big childish kick out of the equine jism pie.
Doug