Re: on evolution again

["Charles Brown" <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Charles Brown insists on our thinking about historical transformations from
one mode of production to the next as a form of "evolution." my problem is
with the analogy between the natural and social world this demands. it seems
to me that this form of reflection traps us in a reduction of the social to
the natural. what about the role of agency in this process. one could argue
that the process of natural selection lacks what we would call "agency." it
is a process without a subject, as Althusser might put it. human history is
a process with many subjects. this is why I object to his formulation.

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CB: How is it that this subject or subjects to not reassert teleology and goals 
back
into history ?

Humans make their own history , but not just as they please or intend.