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

[Jscotlive@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 26/03/2006 21:02:38 GMT Daylight Time,
yavuztuyloglu@xxxxxxxxx writes:

> 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.
>

Reply:

Production and the social relations which result are the starting
point...because human life, like all plant and animal life, must fulfill 
material needs
to exist as life at all.

Material instead of biological in line with materialist conception of matter
and motion as constituting basis of nature and all animal, human and plant
life.

JD
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