Marx as Essentialist; contra Foucault

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Marx as Essentialist; contra Foucault (edited and revised 7/22)

Date: 28 Apr 2016

Charles Brown: Karl Marx,( essentialist, species-beingist )said. ". for the secret of this approach has its unambiguous, decisive, plain and undisguised expression in the relation of man to woman and in the manner in which the direct and natural species-relationship is conceived. The direct, natural, and necessary relation of person to person is the relation of man to woman."

The article below linked is wrong on lack of hetero-sexual instinct, because Homo sapiens didn't lose hetero-sexual instinct upon evolving out of our ancestral primate species.

Hetero-sexual instinct was selected for upon the origin of sexual reproduction 1 billion years ago. Mammals ,primates , which humans are, have heterosexual instinct.

There is nothing about the unique characteristics of the human species (language-symbolic communication , cultural behavior) that would , in the Darwinian sense ,select against hetero-sexual instinct. In fact, human culture-traditions reinforce it.

> On Apr 13, 2016, at 2:48 PM, Brian wrote: Brian: Philosophy, poetry and (you forgot to add Charles) transphobic nonsense > (except to the new breed of toilet monitors who are emerging below the Mason-Dixon line). . . humanity is essentially non-essential." > > Buddhist thinkers arrived at the same conclusion a few hundred years prior. > Correct then; correct now.


CB: Not for Marxists

So, Foucault took license to erase the scientific fact of heterosexual instinct from anthropology and the philosophy of human nature. Foul deed ! Anti-Marxist big lie !

Brian: This article from the Journal of the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association explains about the lack of sexual instinct. The author does note that "the instinct requiring the largest compensating intelligence level before it can be lost is the sexual instinct." I hope other list members will join me in wishing Charles swift attainment of just such a compensating intelligence level.

http://www.humansexualevolution.com/index.htm > Brian