From: Ian Hunt (ian.hunt@FLINDERS.EDU.AU)
Date: Sun Nov 11 2007 - 22:07:51 EST
No single person. That issue relates to the 'great person' theory of history, for whose rejection by Marx I am in more or less complete agreement (in some circumstances, individuals do make significant changes but as Marx points out this is primarily because circumstances are ripe) Associate Professor Ian Hunt Dept of Philosophy School of Humanities Flinders University Box 2100, GPO, Adelaide, 5001 On 12/11/2007, at 10:27 AM, Paul Cockshott wrote: > Quoting Ian Hunt <ian.hunt@FLINDERS.EDU.AU>: >> More suspect, surely, would be Marx's gestures at some sort of >> historical inevitability of social change independent of individual >> agency, >> > > To whose 'individual agency' would you attribute events like > the decline of the ancient slave mode of production, or the > replacement > of feudalism by capitalism? > > > Paul Cockshott > > www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~wpc > reality.gn.apc.org > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.
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