Charles, your logic below unsuccessfully explains the relationship between
human biology and human society. You merely repeat something no one
disputes. All animals reproduce, just as they all breathe, and would die
without doing so. But only humans produce - and probably would not even
surv
I'm several steps behind in this thread. But beginning from the beginning
. . .
The initial "problem" here is the lack of specificity of the assertion, but
it's more of a problem when people don't pay careful attention to the wording.
Note the double-assertion here:
(1) People distinguish t
Actually , this essay ( rough copy here) is not on the issue that Steve
suggested I develop. But it does deal with the anthropological passages at
the beginning of _The German Ideology_ that are close to the one Steve first
adduced for discussion.
As I read this essay, I am claiming that M and E
Thanks much, Steve,for the encouragment. I will take you up on it. I ,
actually, have written out some closely related ideas which critique these
early sections of _The German Ideology_ ( which , of course, was not
published as it was a bit of thinking out loud for themselves by the young
Marx
