On Jun 6, 2006, at 9:49 AM, Ted Winslow wrote:
> Language is our creature. The idea that it's not, that it's the
> creator and we're the creature ("structuralism"), or that it's the
> creature of a creator other than us (e.g. "of genetic programs"),
> is another example of what Marx means by "fetishism".
But we're born into a pre-existing language that shapes the way we see the world. It may be "ours" collectively, but not individually. We make history but not with the tools of our own choosing, right?
Doug