[lbo-talk] quote

Autoplectic autoplectic at gmail.com
Sun May 8 11:50:40 PDT 2005


On 5/8/05, Miles Jackson <cqmv at pdx.edu> wrote:


> Marx is arguing that capitalist social relations presuppose independent
> agents; what's the problem here? I guess we've been through this
> before on the list (the agency/individualism/independence stuff),
> but this seems like a pretty basic Marxist point.
>
> Miles
>
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Well I'd just assert that there's no independence [of agency/intentionality] independent of interdependence; the former being 'parasitic' on the latter. The DoL under capitalism is a massive web of interdependencies and their intended and unintended consequences, that's all, no big deal.

-- "C'mon Mr. Krinkle, tell me why" [Primus]



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