The "unique" English peasantry.

["Charles Brown" <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Charles Brown wrote:

> " "Capitalism was a force that could not
> be denied. Its rise was inevitable at some point or other."
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> CB: Tres interesant. Is the fall of capitalism inevitable at some point or other ?

If this is true, socialism is doomed.

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CB: Do you understand "inevitable" in the same sense that Engels and Marx use it in The Manifesto when they say ? :

"The essential conditions for the existence and for the sway of the bourgeois class is the formation and augmentation of capital; the condition for capital is wage labor. Wage labor rests exclusively on competition between the laborers. The advance of industry, whose involuntary promoter is the bourgeoisie, replaces the isolation of the laborers, due to competition, by the revolutionary combination, due to association. The development of Modern Industry, therefore, cuts from under its feet the very foundation on which the bourgeoisie produces and appropriates products. What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable. "


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By the way, socialism is doomed. The sun will burnout one day ,if nothing , else, although socialism will probably be replaced by another form before that. Everything changes. Nothing stays the same forever. That's dialectics.

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The only basis for confidence in the
possibility of socialism is the knowledge that capitalism, far from being
a historical inevitability, was an aberration, a cancer, which was internally
self-destructive from the beginning.

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CB: Everything is internally self-destructive, whether an aberration or a normalcy.  Everything ends eventually.  Cancer is not an aberration. It is one of the forms by which humans die. And all humans die. Death is immortal.

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But if it was inevitable, then theories
about the end of history cannot be refuted and historical materialism
is a silly daydream.

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CB: It does not follow that the end of history cannot be refuted or that historical materialism is a silly daydream from the premise that capitalism was or its demise is inevitable.  Well , its demise is strictly inevitable. Its arising was dependent upon the human race not being annihilated by a meteor or something .