Re: "science" and "laws"

[Jim Devine <JNDF%LMUACAD.BITNET@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It may be interesting to know the *context* of Marx's famous
quote about tendencies working with iron necessity toward
inevitable results.  He's referring to the "development of
the social antagonisms that result from the natural laws of
capitalist production" (from the previous sentence).  I used
to think that he was referring to either the industrial
development of capitalism (development of the forces of
production) or the move toward socialism, but it's neither
of those.  It's simply that capitalism, by its very nature,
promotes class antagonism.

in pen-l solidarity,

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