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RE: Doug Henwood/Mark Jones exchange (from LBO-Talk)




En relación a RE: Doug Henwood/Mark Jones exchange (from LBO-Ta,
el 30 Apr 00, a las 20:54, Mark Jones dijo:

> Ulhas Joglekar wrote:
> >
> > Nestor has described capitalism as "a social system based upon
> > a negative human drive". IMHO capitalism is not a system BASED
> > on a human drive. Capitalism is certainly characterised by a 'drive'
> > for capital accumulation, which 'drive' is based on the relations of
> > production SPECIFIC to the capitalist mode of production.
>
> I don't think Henry, Carrol, Nestor, me or anyone else here disagrees with
> this. It is an argument about nothing.
>

No, no. If I understand Uhlas well, he is stating that societies are
subjects in themselves, or better still that there is NO SUBJECT AT
ALL IN HUMAN HISTORY. If this is what he believes, then we are at the
gates of a strong argument.





Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky
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