Mommy, what's an intellectual?

Charles Brown CharlesB at CNCL.ci.detroit.mi.us
Thu Jul 12 11:31:24 PDT 2001



>>> jkschw at hotmail.com 07/11/01 01:25PM >>>

Right, as I said, apart from any necessary labor that has to be assigned and enforced. --jks

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CB: Yes, there was no implication in what I had said that the associated producers would haul her out for anything.

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>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.
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>CB: My take would be that since she would not be alienated, and would feel
>with good reason that production had people, including her, as its aim,
>she would be inclined to agree with the organization of social production,
>the specific schedules and coordinations of which she would have
>participated in setting. Rather than coerced , she would be persuaded , not
>in small part by the fact that her life in the queendom of freedom depended
>upon social (communal) production abolishing the realm of necessity. People
>will do just as they please, and what pleases each will please all.
>

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