Alleged conflict of forces/relations of production

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

dmschanoes wrote:
>
>  I was pointing out the critical rupture the scarcity theory makes with
> Marx's analysis regarding historical necessity and the agent of revoution--
> the essential conflict between the means and relations of production.
>

Marx speaks of this alleged conflict a couple of times, but it is an
essentially un-marxist proposition. At the very least, it has to be
argued for independently, not merely affirmed as you do here by
reference to Holy Scripture, when Holy Scripture is itself rather
contradictory on the matter.

There is a fine chapter on this whole matter in Ellen Meiksins Wood,
_Democracy Against Capitalism_.

I changed the subject line because this is not intended as a
contribution to either side on the subject of energy resources.

Carrol