Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 10:44:49 +0000
Subject: Re: M-G: Re: Rolf Martens request for Subscription to LeninList


> From:          Magpie9722-AT-aol.com
> Date:          Sat, 29 Mar 1997 10:10:56 -0500 (EST)
> To:            hariette-AT-easynet.co.uk, rolf.martens-AT-mailbox.swipnet.se
> Cc:            Marxism-General-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU,
>                Marxism-News-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
> Subject:       M-G: Re: Rolf Martens request for Subscription to LeninList
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Maggie posted the following:

> After reading some of the comments that have been written over the last two
> weekks, I am not sure that I am intelligent enough to participate. There is
> one question I would like to ask. Didn't Marx teach that we cannot force the
> world into communisim, but that there will be a natural evolution into
> communism when workers reach the point where there realize that we are no
> longer participating in free creative production or that we are not able to
> objectify ourselves in the world and because most people are competing for
> jobs that we are no longer able to socialize?
> It seems that all of these things are happening now and that soon capitalism
> has to crumble. I don't know maybe I am looking at things too simplistically.
> Maggie
> 
>I would be interested to know what comments made you think you were 
not intelligent enough to participate on M-G.  I hope mine wernt 
among them.  I agree with your sentence on what Marx taught except I 
think that the term "natural evolution" could suggest that things 
happen automatically without class struggle. 
Dave 



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