ken hanly wrote:
>Surely Keynes is a hopeless Idealist. He talks of people changing their
>motivations,getting rid of certain motivational features of capitalism such
>as the love of money. changing moral values and ideas, not changing the
>relations of production that is getting rid of the underlying foundations
>for those values by overthrowing the capitalist system. He is a preacher not
>a revolutionary.
Doug writes:
>How can you get people to change the relations of production without
changing their ideas about them? In the capitalist society I live in
- and in this respect I doubt that Canada is all too profoundly
different - people accept existing relations and motivations as
entirely normal, "natural" even. You're not going to get anywhere if
you can't change that.<
surely Marx had the answer here, but it's surely very difficult in practice. You try to "raise consciousness" around issues associated with the objective contradictions of the system.