44 | Karl Kautsky's Cooperative Commonwealth
What's Left of Philosophy
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Are You Trying to Define the Tendencies of Social Development?
Fakotsky says that for tens of thousands of years, social development moved very slowly. But then in the 15 hundreds, it speeds up and pretty rapidly we start seeing intense evolutions of social forms as capitalism develops. The call for socialism isn't like, let's return to ancient communism, because we have to depart from the present. And departing from the present means looking at this tendency towards large scale production. Ra: I was thinking when i was reading this, about how presciant it was. It anticipates a lot of the claims that people like paul bron and sweeze are going to write 80 or 70 years later on monopoly capital.
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