Re: [Marxism] theocracy?

["Ruthless Critic of All that Exists" <ok.president+marxml@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 3/10/08, james daly <james.irldaly@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>  The first is stained with "the muck of ages" (German Ideology), a market
>  relationship. For Marx, that seems to last until the over-coming of
>  scarcity, when the need to get the better of each other ceases. (I prefer C.
>  B. MacPerson's treatment of scarcity as relative, because desires are
>  unbounded, and until fulfilled are experienced as scarcity).

Marx distinguished (in the Grundrisse I think, but I may be wrong)
between constant desires (like food, sex, etc) and relative desires
(which are socially constructed).

Is the need to get the better of each other, "constant" or "relative"?
Marx would say the latter, but many psychologists would say: the
former. This is all a matter of speculation.

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