[lbo-talk] Altruism & Evolution?

[Mike Ballard]

joanna bujes wrote:
> Altruism only needs to be "explained" if you assume
that the world is an > aggregate of (self-serving)
individuals.
> 
> Big assumption.
> 
ravi wrote:
i do not know about economics, but at least in
biology, its a very powerful assumption in terms of
its utility. which suggests to me that the burden
rests upon us to defend a more holistic model... no?

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Don't workers have the right to be greedy?  After all,
they co:operatively create existing social wealth. 
This is not to discount Nature, of course.  The point
is to change bourgeois (hooray for me, screw you)
mentality into class conscious praxis.  Perhaps a
little more indignation at having to trade a hand full
of dimes for the social product of our labour would do
the trick.  

Best,
Mike B)

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"Whenever morality is based on theology, 
whenever right is made dependent on 
divine authority, the most immoral, 
unjust, infamous things can 
be justified and established." 

- Ludwig Feuerbach (1804-1872)

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