Productive Forces, was Re: reply-part 2

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Waistline2@xxxxxxx wrote:
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> We demand change in society along the direction of the productive forces,

No. Not true. _Many_ Marxists but by no means all put central emphasis
on the "productive forces." Others argue that this proposition about the
necessary growth of productive forces applies not to all history (and
certainly not to socialism or communism) but only to capitalism. It is
this drive to unleash the productive forces that turns capitalism into a
destructive force. See esp. the works of Ellen Meiksins Wood, Edward
Thompson, Raymond Williams, and Robert Brenner.

Carrol