Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] that man (sic) was born free, but was crippled through social organisation.

2005-09-12 Thread Jim Farmelant
g, that he can be interpreted in all sorts of different ways. > > -Original Message- > From: Charles Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sep 12, 2005 12:55 PM > To: 'Forum for the discussion of theoretical issues raised by Karl > Marx and > the thinkers he inspi

[Marxism-Thaxis] that man (sic) was born free, but was crippled through social organisation.

2005-09-12 Thread Charles Brown
Ralph D: I'm no Rousseau expert, but this doesn't sound right to me. The Rousseau quote in itself seems to be a quintessentially dialectical statement: how is it that a human being born a tabula rasa (socially if not genetically), who has the potential to become anything, is then socialized in a s

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] that man (sic) was born free, but was crippled through social organisation.

2005-09-12 Thread Jim Farmelant
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 12:55:03 -0400 "Charles Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > excerpt from > Liberty > A study in bourgeois illusion Caudwell seems to have held to a type of compatibilism concerning the issue of free will and determinism. As such it seems to bear more than a passing r

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] that man (sic) was born free, but was crippled through social organisation.

2005-09-12 Thread Ralph Dumain
: Charles Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sep 12, 2005 12:55 PM To: 'Forum for the discussion of theoretical issues raised by Karl Marx and the thinkers he inspired' Subject: [Marxism-Thaxis] that man (sic) was born free, but was crippled through social organisation.

[Marxism-Thaxis] that man (sic) was born free, but was crippled through social organisation.

2005-09-12 Thread Charles Brown
excerpt from Liberty A study in bourgeois illusion >From this it follows that the animals are less free than men. Creatures of impulse, acting they know not why, subject to all the chances of nature, of other animals, of geographical accidents and climatic change, they are at the mercy of ne