Re: [Pen-l] Lobbying

[raghu <mraghu01@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 6:39 PM, David B. Shemano <dshemano@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> <<<I suppose Marxists could resolve this dilemma by arguing people do not
> necessarily have conflicting interests, but personally, that to me is closer
> to flying people than a world of clean water.
>
> <<<What makes you thinks Marxists believe such a preposterous thing?
>
> To be fair to me, Marxists presumably believe in "class conflict" and that
> true communism will be a post-historical stage where such conflict ceases to
> exist.  There is certainly the implication that "conflict" in such a world
> will be qualitatively different -- as the citizenry will all be free,
> rational, etc., disputes will by definition be almost trivial -- how could
> free and rational individuals disagree on something really material?  I
> suppose you can qualify such concepts to be practically meaningless in
> context, but do Marxists really want to do that?  Do you want to take the
> position that there will be serious conflict in utopia?  How disappointing.


I don't consider myself a Marxist, but this seems to be a very poor
caricature of that school of thought. As I understand it, in a
communist world, one specific form of conflict would cease to exist:
class conflict. Thats it. I am sure even in a communist world there
will be people who want to banish evolution from school textbooks and
so on.
-raghu.



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