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?
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>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.
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>Can such answers be practically "produced" other than in the imagination?
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