File spoon-archives/marxism-thaxis.archive/marxism-thaxis_1998/marxism-thaxis.9804, message 123


Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 22:51:18 -0500
From: Yoshie Furuhashi <Furuhashi.1-AT-osu.edu>
Subject: Re: M-TH: Good sex is for normal people


James replies to Hugh:
>In message <l03020902b14845d7fa02-AT-[130.244.234.209]>, Hugh Rodwell <m-
>14970-AT-mailbox.swipnet.se> writes
>> And freedom
>>is the recognition of necessity, not its wishing away. Necessity is the
>>foundation of freedom.
>
>I think the quote runs: freedom is the recognition of necessity and the
>leap from necessity. The idea is similar to Hegel's transformation of
>substance into subject (Science of Logic). In putting the stress on the
>first part of the equation, rather as the Stalinist polymath Christopher
>Caudwell did, you obliterate the meaning of the realm of freedom. Nobody
>here is saying that we are already there, but that surely is the goal,
>the overcoming of natural necessity and the extension of the realm of
>freedom.

Procreationists find themselves fundamentally in opposition to women's
attempt to enlarge our realm of freedom, because the 'necessity' Hugh is
speaking of here is a burden carried by women, not men. Hugh doesn't know
enough to recognize that positing 'social necessity' in the naturalized
link of sex, sexuality, and reproduction makes for diffrential burdens for
men and women. Under his communism, women will never be equal to men.

Yoshie




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