From: Wim Nusselder (wim.nusselder@antenna.nl)
Date: Thu Jun 10 2004 - 05:54:05 BST
Dear Platt,
You wrote 8 Jun 2004 15:35:07 -0400:
'If you would please expand on how economic dependence is an instrument of
conversation between society and biology. ... I take it you believe that
communist ideology as espoused in the Communist Manifesto has merit. If so,
please explain.'
Economic dependence holds societies together (e.g. maintains the social
patterns of value of international trade that hold together global society)
that would otherwise disintegrate into smaller societies providing their
members less freedom from biological restrictions.
Communist ideology as espoused in the Communist Manifesto united labourers
and those sympathizing with labourers who wanted freedom from what we now
experience as primitive and dehumanizing labour conditions. It has merit
compared to contemporary alternatives that defended those labour conditions.
Under attack communist ideology developed variants (like Leninism)
justifying excessive use of policemen, soldiers and guns to repress (what
they perceive as) lower quality parts of their society (and what are in part
attempts to reform their societies in a more moral direction). Those
variants have less merit than alternatives propagating liberation from
social restrictions by justifying higher quality instruments of conversation
between 'society' and 'biology'.
With friendly greetings,
Wim
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