[Marxism-Thaxis] Marx on the credit crunch?

2008-04-02 Thread Charles Brown
Chris Doss I think this depends on how you define science. Cosmology, paleontology, and many forms of geology are all really varieties of history and all normally considered sciences. Unless one wants to say that history only refers to that story of the development of human beings, and that for

[Marxism-Thaxis] Marx on the credit crunch? (Science, History, Freedom)

2008-04-02 Thread Charles Brown
This is stimulating but wrong--stimulatingly wrong--I think. Marx speculates that all epochs have their own law of population, for example. He was only ('only'!) studying capitalism and what went before. There are surely laws of history in communism but we don't know what they are yet.