File spoon-archives/marxism.archive/marxism_1994/marxism.Jul12-Aug17.94, message 216


Subject: Re:  teleology
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 94 10:34:45 +0100
From: wpc-AT-cs.strath.ac.uk


One can have a theory about the likely development of something that
is non-teleological. Astronomers predict that as a main sequence star,
our sun will eventually develop into a red giant and engulf the inner
planets. This is a predicted fate for the earth.

It would become a teleology if one were to say that the sun
existed in its present form, in order, that it might later
consume our planet.

Similarly one can non-teleologically argue that there are tendancies
within capitalism that make its long term survival unlikely and 
replacement by socialism likely.



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