Thursday, July 30, 2015

Materialism, Reproduction, Tyranny

At the beginning of the German Ideology, included in Marx's introduction of Materialism, are the terms "reproduce", "increase of population", and "intercourse".  Now, while the actual context of these usages is the exploitation of the working class, they are a reminder that a significant factor in the traditional Theological aversion to Materialism is the tyranny of not the leisure classes, as Marxism asserts, but of the senses, e. g. Buddha, Augustine, etc.  Still, the biological means of production, i. e. the reproductive organs, evince that the Social Atomism that grounds Capitalism is a fiction that abstracts from the actual function of parts of the individual human body.

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