Re: BHA: Book notice: Creaven, Marxism and Ralism

[Mervyn Hartwig <mh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Victor:

>Thus, I think we should include in our debates how can the working class
>seize control of the level of production, since that is where all the
>contradictions of society emerge from.  Debating whether or not god exists
>or if angels have sex (as the medieval Scholastics use to do, i
>believe)  seems somewhat trivial when people are starving, dying, and
>living to work rather than working to live.

To be fair to Sean Creaven: the whole of his book is devoted to
producing a social theory which, if working people understood it, would
persuade them that they should assume control of the level of
production. His discussion of ontological materialism vs idealism, God
and matter is only a small part of this and I have tried to make it
clear that this is so.

Mervyn




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