[lbo-talk] Credit Where Credit is Due

Jon Johanning zenner41 at mac.com
Wed Jan 26 12:39:24 PST 2005


On Jan 26, 2005, at 2:13 PM, amadeus amadeus wrote:


> At a certain point far enough back in history, there
> was no real-world society that pointed the way to
> capitalist society (social-democratic or otherwise).
> And before that, there was nothing that pointed the
> way towards feudalism, and before that, etc. And
> before that, there was nothing that pointed towards
> human beings actually existing, let alone creating any
> sort of society at all.

And reading this forwards, something in the pre-human era produced human beings (we right-thinking folks insist that that was evolution, of course). And something in the pre-feudal historical conditions gave rise to feudalism. And ... gave rise to capitalism. So the question inquiring minds are asking is: what in the present (or foreseeable-future) conditions is going to give rise to anarchism (world-wide, more or less simultaneously)? Inquiring minds aren't looking for a detailed answer, of course, just a general idea.

Jon Johanning // jjohanning at igc.org __________________________ In all ... philosophical studies, the difficulties and disagreements, of which its history is full, are mainly due to a very simple cause: namely to the attempt to answer questions, without first discovering precisely what question it is which you desire to answer. -- G. E. Moore



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