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Subject: Marx: materialism and humanism
* From: "James Daly"
It has been widely argued, and I think successfully, that Marx's notion of
necessity is not the empiricist and positivist one of causal determinism or
laws of history, but of realist natural or essential necessity; an example
would be the necessity to capitalism of the extraction of surplus labour
through the wages system.
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CB: How about thinking of realist natural or essential necessity as rooted
in real biology, real animal nature. The determining power and necessity
of the biological needs is transferred to the wage system due to the fact
that in wage-labor society people can't meet their biological needs without
money, and most have to get money as wages. The determining power of
poltical economy, economic classes, is derivative of the biological
determining power and necessity.
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