On 2/14/06, Michael Nuwer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the Grundrisse (and elsewhere) Marx points out that > money and capital are historically specific; that > these concept, or economic categories, do not have a > natural existence. Perhaps the same can be said about > uncertainty and incomplete information; that these > concepts are also historically specific; that they are > not "in nature." Marx taught me that capitalism > creates its own scarcity; that scarcity is not an > economic problem imposed by nature. Perhaps the same > can also be said about uncertainty and incomplete > information; capitalism also creates these, they are > not economic problems imposed by nature. They are > historically specific.
---------------------------------- Non-omniscience and an inability to experience 'the' future are irreducible features of human existence; they are not simply historical-sociological curiosities. Socialism cannot bring omniscience it can only change the individual and institutional contours of the relations of/between the known/unknown dynamic as they exist under capitalism. See the work of Patrick Grim, Raymond Smullyan and Richard Gale on the role of informational incompleteness in ontology.
