On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 6:39 PM, David B. Shemano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <<<I suppose Marxists could resolve this dilemma by arguing people do not > necessarily have conflicting interests, but personally, that to me is closer > to flying people than a world of clean water. > > <<<What makes you thinks Marxists believe such a preposterous thing? > > To be fair to me, Marxists presumably believe in "class conflict" and that > true communism will be a post-historical stage where such conflict ceases to > exist. There is certainly the implication that "conflict" in such a world > will be qualitatively different -- as the citizenry will all be free, > rational, etc., disputes will by definition be almost trivial -- how could > free and rational individuals disagree on something really material? I > suppose you can qualify such concepts to be practically meaningless in > context, but do Marxists really want to do that? Do you want to take the > position that there will be serious conflict in utopia? How disappointing.
I don't consider myself a Marxist, but this seems to be a very poor caricature of that school of thought. As I understand it, in a communist world, one specific form of conflict would cease to exist: class conflict. Thats it. I am sure even in a communist world there will be people who want to banish evolution from school textbooks and so on. -raghu. -- "Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time." - Steven Wright _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
