andie nachgeborenen wrote:
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> Someone needs to reflect on the sources of human
> unhappiness and strife. The most basic of these --
> mortality -- is not likely to be affected by the
> advent of a classless society. Neither would
> classlessness cure broken hearts and failure in love,
> grief at loss of children, parents or other loved ones
> -- not just through death (I am struggling with the
> fact that my daughter has just left for college);
> illness and diminishment of physical and mental power,
Thus also argues Timpanaro in Reflections on Materialism. I agree. So did Engels if I remember correctly. But push this list too far and you claim more knowledge than is possible of what will and won't be spontaneous human consciousness under social conditions radically different from ours.
Carrol