> And against Ted, I think when Marx
> said "Struggle" in response to the
> question What is, he too was seeing
> barbrism and freedom merely as
> possiblities in a world ruled by
> contingnecyl.
I'm going to sound like Ted W, but Marx didn't think that the world (history in particular) was ruled by contingency. Marx thought history was ruled by *laws* covered under the cloak of contingent events.