Necessity is a main form of determination. When science discovers necessary connections, it finds determinations. These are also objective conditions and natural laws.
Marx claims that there are necessary connections in human society and affairs. But some of those necessary connections are maintained only by the force of state power behind private property relations, the laws of private property, exploiter/ exploited relations. These necessary connections are abolished in the Realm of Freedom. The other two levels of necessary connections - meeting physiological necessaries and "obeying" the necessities of "physics" in general, natural laws, persist in communism, as does the materialist epistemological principle that practice is the test of theory (2nd Thesis on Feuerbach; central thesis of the book _Materialism and Empirio-Criticism_ by Lenin) persist in communism. CB Finding necessary determinations in human affairs is social science Charles Brown Previous message: [Marxism-Thaxis] Second Thesis on Feuerbach as Mother wit Next message: [Marxism-Thaxis] _Capital_ as science -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The interesting thing to me is that on the sort of fundamental issue in dispute - are human activities subject to scientific investigation and understanding - Jerry agrees with the thinkers who he uses the denigrating terminology to refer to. Jerry and the post/structuralists and postmodernists are philosophical idealists, in terms of the Marxist philosophical analytical categories. Those who say there is and can be no social _science_ are philosophical idealists; because they claim that there are no objective or necessary determinations of human history. The real dispute here is between idealists and materialists. Foucault , Butler and Monaco are on the same side in that dispute. The claim that politics, history, law, literature et al can only be understood "humanistically" is philosophical idealism, in the sense that Marx and Engels use that analytical category. By the way, positivism reduces to philosophical idealism, as Lenin demonstrates in _ Materialism and Empirio-Criticism_ Charles This message has been scanned for malware by SurfControl plc. www.surfcontrol.com _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
