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On Nov 11, 2010, at 9:12 AM, Louis Proyect wrote: Richard Seymour wrote: "In chapter three of The Constitution of Liberty, Hayek lays out of the neoliberal conception of 'progress'. In this, he was consistent with previous rightist thought by conceiving of 'progress' not as a movement toward a desired end, but as the constant, rapid accumulation of capital in its various forms, with no agreed end " There is nothing "neoliberal" about that--it is simply Marx's theory of the driving force of capitalism, "accumulate, accumulate--that is Moses and The Prophets"--and his justification of this progress (and it is progress in the sense of Marx's definition of historical progress as the increase in the productive power of social labor) is nothing but Hegel's profound conception of the "List des Vernunfts" whereby History produces progress through the unconscious operations of human stupidity and destructiveness. What he and all capitalist apologists miss is the Hegelian/Marxist concept of the *higher rationality of History* whereby human struggle is to produce, out of the charnel house of history, the collective self-consciousness of a human race no longer a biological species *an sich* but the active (*an und für sich*) species-being called on to direct (in the next historical phase) the ongoing growth of planetary consciousness. Hayek is orthogonal to Hegel and Marx. In Hayek the world is neither standing on its head not on its feet--it lies prone in the mud. ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
