Re: [Marxism] Do you agree or disagree with the following proposition

[Yavuz Tuyloglu <yavuztuyloglu@xxxxxxxxx>]

Charles Brown <cbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:    Do you agree or disagree 
with the following proposition:

Production and economic classes are the starting point of Marxist analysis
of human society, including in the Manifesto, because human life, like all
plant and animal life must fulfill biological needs to exist as life at all.
Marx and Engels are looking for _necessity_ to put historical materialism
on a scientific basis. In human biology there is necessity, things that must
be done.

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I agree with one exception... What about using the phrase "social classes" 
instead of "economic classes" in order to stress the totality of social 
reality? I guess we are all sick and tired of hearing non-Marxists muppets 
repeating over: "Can't you see? Marx was an economic determinist." Or "can't 
you see that Marxism is now irrelevant? Even the Soviet Union collapsed."

  Thanks

                        
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