Thomas_More
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They’re all still at it, trying their last-ditch attempts to keep the war going.
Britain and the Biden US, the Baltics and EU NATO states.
‘Let’s just fight’: How Britain prefers war over peace in Ukraine
Putin is equally vile. Remember that Kiev, supplied by the West, had been bombarding the Donbas since 2014. And the NATO states said the war must continue to “the last Ukrainian.”
” I actually don’t think the ‘base-superstructure’ analogy is that useful, and I think it should be dropped. But that’s something for another day and another thread.”
Strongly disagree. People wallow in the superstructure and take aspects of it as the base. For instance, watching the news and gloomily saying “It’s human nature.” They need to be made aware that the horrors they are witnessing are the products of the capitalist economic base, and that that is what produces the rest.
” Would one not be closer to the truth in saying that anarchy is the struggle, in human society, against the disharmonies of Nature?””
No. Human society has so far been the most disharmonious society of all.
I agree, DJP, that we should use aspects of the social superstructure to show people the socio-economic base, which is the capitalist mode of production.
As to “nature”, whatever humans do is natural, including bringing about societies with their cultures. It is something humans do, and is therefore natural. It is FIXED human nature that we object to as a fallacy, because behaviours and ideas are produced by specific social environments which are constantly in flux. Hence there is no fixed human nature, beyond eating, requiring shelter, and seeking to reproduce.
How can we say which window of the social superstructure will be someone’s entry into socialist awareness?
All aspects of the superstructure (the culture we inhabit) are fair game for discussion. We cannot restrict ourselves to explaining and talking about the socio-economic base. People live within the superstructure of capitalism, their daily lives being part of it. As long as we avoid falling into reformism and single issues, all subjects can be talked about.
