[lbo-talk] Doctrine of Progress was Nietzsche Selection

[Charles Brown]

Another thing on this was that the bourgeois revolution and development was
going to happen, continue. It was an objective condition relative to Marx
and Engels as individuals. So, it was practical to try to find the rational
kernels of capitalism, and encourage their overcoming the irrational
aspects. Marx and Engels were very specific and discriminating in a number
of writings on what they considered progressive or potentially progressive
in capitalism - the development of the forces of production, one of the
"frees" of the doubly free labor, etc. 

Charles

^^^^

No doubt off and on Marx & Engels themselves bought this Doctrine of
Progress: that the history of humanity was a wandering but still
ultimately straightforward line from "barbarism" to the ultimate goal of
the Good Society. Chomsky buys into it implicitly in his statement often
quoted by Doug about the U.S. being today incomparably more civilized
than it was 50 years ago.

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