Article discreditng the thesis that Mao "killed millions of people" in The Great Leap
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(12-29-2016, 05:31 AM)Jester Wrote:
(12-29-2016, 05:17 AM)FireIceTalon Wrote: Marx never said communism was inevitable, only that it was possible due to the contradictions within the capitalist system, that it was in the objective class interests of the proletariat based on this analysis (which still holds true) and thus historically necessary (but not inevitable).

Can you explain what it means for something to be historically necessary, but not inevitable?

-Jester

"Potentially it has the collective power to overturn the entire social system and establish a new society in which it will simultaneously produce and consciously direct production. It is on this foundation that Marxism transcends idealism and mechanical materialism in dialectical materialism which finds its highest expression in conscious revolutionary practice. Conscious revolutionary practice is activity which makes use of the fullest possible understanding of all the natural and social forces constraining and shaping human behaviour in order to tip the balance in favour of the working class and rescue humanity from the abyss."

This is from the link I posted earlier in this thread, post #30. I think its a good summary of what is meant by 'historical necessity'.

It is simply the understanding that the present social order can only lead to economic and social disaster for the human species, and of the environment as well; and that its (capitalisms) destruction is absolutely necessary to prevent these catastrophies from happening. Of course, it isn't just the end results of capitalism and what it could potentially degenerate into if we let it survive indefinitely that concern us, but also the past and ONGOING attrocities that are intrinsic to it. There is no reforming this system, the decay is way too deep, but even if it wasn't, it hardly deserves to live anyways. So, is communism inevitable? Not by any means. But it is necessary? Yes, and I have absolutely no reason to believe otherwise.
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"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)
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RE: Article discreditng the thesis that Mao "killed millions of people" in T... - by FireIceTalon - 12-29-2016, 06:03 AM

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