[lbo-talk] Kenneally, some notes and background

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Fri Jun 12 05:27:32 PDT 2009


All human organization of production is social, because we are social animals. (For that matter, all termite and wolf organization of production is social.)

--- On Fri, 6/12/09, heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk <heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:


> From: heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk <heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk>
> Subject: [lbo-talk] Kenneally, some notes and background
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Friday, June 12, 2009, 6:29 AM
> > Frankly, though this sounds
> rather grand, it's also
> > nonsensical. People are born with spinal cords,
> livers,
> > etc. These structures are not "socially conditioned",
> > and they can do certain things and not others,
> period,
> > full stop.
>
> well, you could look at it this way: the population is
> currently six and a
> half billion. Without social organisation of production,
> the human species
> would not have generated the surplus product to sustain
> more than what, a
> million people, meaning that more than six billion of the
> spinal cords,
> livers and so on walking the earth, are truly social
> products, that would
> never have existed by nature alone
>
>
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