Mommy, what's an intellectual?

Ian Murray seamus2001 at home.com
Tue Jul 10 11:57:08 PDT 2001



> I read the "hunt in the morning" passage as a claim that under
communism,
> people will do, as Marx says, "just as [they] please"; that is to
say, apart
> from whatever necessary labor has to be assigned and enforced,
people who
> care to do diverse physical and mental activities will do so, and
them as
> don't, won't. If someone wants to spend her days toiling away in the
library
> redacting Manilius, the associated producers will not haul her out
for nude
> swimming and geodwesic dome building that she'd rather not do. In
technical
> terms, Marx is claiming that communism will involve maximal negative
freedom
> from coercion or compulsion.
>
> --jks
========== Are maximal negative freedom and maximal positive freedom conjointly realizable in a world of 6 billion? If not, don't we fall prey to Hale's dilemmas? Ian



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