[lbo-talk] quote

Miles Jackson cqmv at pdx.edu
Sun May 8 13:45:08 PDT 2005


On Sun, 8 May 2005, Autoplectic wrote:


> 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.

This is a fundamental Marxist point to me: the independent apparently isolated individual is a precipitate of an "ensemble of social relations". You seem to be saying "I disagree with M. because-- I agree entirely with M's central point".

Miles



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