Re: the Communist Manifesto: critique

> At 12:10 PM -0600 16/3/02, Paul Gomberg wrote:

> >When Marx and others denounced capitalism, the denunciation centered on a
> >communist vision, a world where human relationships would be unmediated
> >by money and markets, where production and human society generally would
> >be oriented toward the needs of the working class. Of course, it is
> >unfashionable to defend this vision now, but so what?

Whether this was in fact Marx's vision is a matter of some debate.  But
I'm curious about what exactly would mediate human relationships in the
society you envision.  Or would there be no mediation at all, since
everyone would exist in immediate communion with everyone and everything?

-- 
Boris Stremlin
bstremli@binghamton.edu