[lbo-talk] Philosophy of Science & Sex, Kink and Ick

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Sep 23 15:58:49 PDT 2004


Curtiss Leung wrote:


>Carrol and Doug:
>
>>> It is really quite absurd to attempt to predict what sexual behavior
>>> would be like in post-capitalist society. Mao again, "Marxists have
>no
>>> crystal ball."
>>
>> He'd be shocked to learn that China is now the #1 target for foreign
>> direct investment, having surpassed the U.S., wouldn't he? Still
>> waiting for that analysis of what went wrong with his revolution.
>
>I dunno...but if you look at Mao's regime as a brutal expropriation
>of small holders from their land resulting in the creation of an
>industrial
>proletariat, it seems like a straightforward case of primitive
>accumulation,
>culminating in capitalist production in a previously agricultural
>nation.

I could buy some version of that, but I doubt Carrol could. But we can only speculate on what Carrol thinks, since he consistently refuses to answer the question, despite having quoted Mao in 47 posts to this list in the last 4 years.

Doug



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