Re: Re(2): Re(2): Individual activity?-questions questions

From: Ricardo Ottoni Vaz Japiassu (rjapias@uol.com.br)
Date: Fri Apr 20 2001 - 07:04:44 PDT


That's a great contradicitory principle of contemporaneity :

Globalization X Tolerance of cultural diversity-difference

What to do? Tolerate or not?

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De: Nate Schmolze <vygotsky@home.com>
Para: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
Data: Sexta-feira, 20 de Abril de 2001 10:54
Assunto: Re: Re(2): Re(2): Individual activity?-questions questions

>Yes Eva I was thinking the same.
>
>I thought it was a great list - am still trying to figure out the
subjectivity though. All the suggestions seem to confront the
>objective reality of living in a particular society and a glimpse of what
(imagination) a different type of activity / society
>would look like.
>
>Nate
>
>
>4/19/01 9:28:03 AM, Phil Graham <phil.graham@mailbox.uq.edu.au> wrote:
>
>>At 08:18 AM 4/19/01 -0400, BB wrote:
>>>What is a productive answer?
>>
>>The practical end of categorised human beings;
>>The end of labour (human activity, time, life) as a commodity;
>>The end of the illusion that all things are exchangeable for every other
thing;
>>The end of the illusory primacy of exchange-values (money) as the only
>>"real" value;
>>The end of corporate "persons" at law and the removal of their rights as
>>persons;
>>The end of the private ownership of land;
>>The end of inheritance laws;
>>The end of intellectual property laws;
>>The end of the idea that productive activity can only produce use-values;
>>The end of utility as an ideal;
>>An understanding that waste can be productive;
>>An understanding that ignorance is the raw material of wisdom, as well as
>>one of its by-products;
>>An understanding that humans are a single species united in their humanity
>>and nothing else;
>>An understanding that what we say is something that we do (material
action);
>>An understanding that what we do affects everything we are as a species;
>>An understanding that everything all of us needs already exists and has
>>done for almost a century;
>>An understanding that we all need each other.
>>.
>>Can such answers be practically "produced" other than in the imagination?
>>
>>Phil
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