Each time I hear that material reality is bound to collapse because some abstractions do not align themselves the way some theory says they should, I have a sinking feelings that someone is trying to pull something quick. I heard a lot of that nonsense when the privatizers evoked the "economic theory" to legitimate the grand theft of public property in post-communist Eastern Europe, and when the stooges of capital try to persuade gullible public that there is not enough money for public projects. It is utter nonsense - like saying that a carpenter does not have enough inches to build a table or that the building collapsed because its feng shui was out of balance.
Wojtek
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 11:16 PM, Miles Jackson <cqmv at pdx.edu> wrote:
> Wojtek S wrote:
>>
>> Thus is not to say that people are not by nature social,
>> but rather that abstractions tend to hide human agency, which is
>> typically a bad thing.
>>
>> Wojtek
>
> Exactly backwards: the valorization of "human agency" is an ideological
> lynchpin for capitalism. Without the notion of the the agentic individual,
> any capitalist social formation would crumble.
>
> Miles
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