[lbo-talk] "pointing finger of the neighbourhood"

shag shag at cleandraws.com
Wed Mar 26 03:51:40 PDT 2008


At 10:12 PM 3/25/2008, Miles Jackson wrote:
>B. wrote:
> > Carrol Cox/Crankshaft's school bus of historical
> > progress is driven by "social forces" and "social
> > conditions," independent of human volition.
> >
>
>I've said this before: the notion that history is the product of
>autonomous, self-directed individuals is capitalist ideology through and
>through. Moreover: without this ideology, capitalist social relations
>could not be sustained.
>
>So my question is this: why cling to and reinforce an ideology that
>supports capitalist social relations?
>
>Miles

people cling to it because history is not the product of autonomous, self-directed individuals. :)

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