Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Human society is not a machine - that works or does not work


   Critics of " socialism " -with its success and failure in practice- often have a non-historical, mechanical view of human society. A machine is designed for a particular purpose : it works or does not work. Only organic things " evolve "-- sometimes in revolutionary leaps.

Slavery also worked. Had the slaves no right or reason to rebel against a system that worked ? But slavery " worked" for the master class. Likewise capitalism works for the capitalists. And the wage slaves have a right to rebel against it.

Behind conservative thought is not even ordinary hypocrisy. It is the philosophical rigidity of " common sense " : A always = A.

Any " science " of history must reject " identity " philosophy just as real socialism rejects " identity politics " Class trumps race, gender, sexual orientation .

We live in a universe of change and development. Capitalism is not forever. Reason is not irrelevant to the economic order.

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