lbo-talk-digest V1 #4736

[Kenneth MacKendrick]

At 02:14 PM 8/13/01 -0400, you wrote:
>Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 12:37:45 -0400
>From: Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu>
>Subject: Re: Conscious Social Reproduction (Re: lbo-talk-digest V1 #4729)
>
>Miles says:
>
> >I agree CSR is a neat idea in this social context, but is it something
> >humans everywhere, at all times, will have to live up to in order
> >to live in a worthwhile society?
>
>Though I don't know about Ken & Kelley, I doubt that Habermas makes
>any such claim.  In so far as Habermas learned anything from Marx &
>critical theory, he'd have to argue that conscious social
>reproduction is a promise of modernity, hardly possible under
>feudalism & other pre-capitalist modes of production.
>
>Yoshie

Habermas argues that all social reproduction is, at least to some degree, 
conscious. An unconscious society doesn't reproduce itself as a society. 
See Legitimation Crisis, Communication and the Evolution of Society, and 
The Theory of Communicative Action.

ken