Re: Beef and revolution in Central America

[briand@xxxxxxxxxxx (Brian Carnell)]

On Wed, 24 Apr 1996 21:31:07 -0600 (CST), HANLY@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:


>COMMENT: Why don't you actually read Marx or even a secondary source if you
>find that too difficult? Marx would certainly agree that it is a good thing
>when technology makes more goods with less people. Communism for Marx is
>indeed a society where there is a minimum of work needed to satisfy basic needs
>and produce basic commodities. Can you find some source that denies this? Why
>do you say things that are so absurdly wrong?

Because your comrades endorse the view that work is an "essential"
part of being human.

>arx also says over and over,
>read the goddam COMMUNIST MANIFESTO if you don't believe me, that capitalism
>is a fantastically productive system but as Louis says its very productivity
>is such that it cannot be fully realised. Productivity throws people out
>of work and into poorer paying jobs or the ranks of the unemployed
> while it makes
>the owner of capital richer.

Ah, the Luddite response to productivity increase.  (BTW I have read
the Communist Manifesto, thank you.  But many of the people here I'm
addressing these questions to seem more taken in by Lenin/Mao than
Marx).


>The reason for this is the engine of production is profit not need under
>capitalism. In communist society production is based on social
>requirements not the requirements of private capital.

How does one determine what the "social requirement" of production is
without a market economy?

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