Re: [Marxism] Dialectical and Historical Materialism

["Nestor Gorojovsky" <nestorgoro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Respuesta a: [Marxism] Dialectical and Historical Materialism
Remitido por: Jurriaan Bendien
Fecha: Domingo 9 de Enero de 2005 
Hora: 14:02
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> Karl Marx himself made no such claim at all. For Karl Marx, the
> productive forces consisted not just of the material means of
> production (tools, technology, materials, instruments, improved land)
> but also centrally of living human labor-power itself, and the
> technical systems of co-ordination or organisation of production.

True.  

But don't these "technical systems of co-ordination" include  the 
forms of consciousness  that enable the co-ordination to exist, in 
the first place?  It is important to answer this question, because if 
we answer "yes" (and I, for one, do, among other reasons because I 
have had the experience, through my lifespan to date, to watch the 
effect of class demoralization on productivity, both among workers 
and among the bourgeoisie:  gifts from Argentinean history) we should 
consider "philosophical" issues more closely and seriously than 
usual.

Productive forces can begin to revolutionized (for better or for 
worse, should we soberingly add with the 1975-2000 experience behind 
us) by simply a change in those forms of consciousness, even in the 
perspectives of future, which become a _material_ issue of the 
greatest importance.

But these "perspectives of future", don't they entail, in some way or 
other, some kind of "philosophy of history", not of necessity a 
_system_ but a general outlook?

Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky
nestorgoro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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"Sí, una sola debe ser la patria de los sudamericanos".
Simón Bolívar al gobierno secesionista y disgregador de 
Buenos Aires, 1822
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