----- Original Message ----- From: "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
>
> The question, as Wood phrases it in a chapter title, is that of
"History
> or teleology?" Given the human anatomy, we can better understand
the
> anatomy of the ape -- but that does _not_ mean that given the
ape we
> could predict the emergence of the human. There was no
"tendency" for
> the ape to become human, or for commerce to become capitalist.
In fact,
> probably the emergence of the human was an accident, as the
emergence of
> capitalism was more an aberration than a probability or
necessity. It
> could very well not have happened.
>
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It makes NO sense to claim the emergence of human beings was an accident any more than it makes sense to say that "it" was intended or planned. Nor does it makes sense to say capitalism was an aberration-compared to what?
Ian