Monday, April 30, 2018

Caudwell's Marxist critique of Freud

https://www.marxists.org/archive/caudwell/1938/studies/ch07.htm

But a dialectical critique of Freud must both overcome and preserve , extract some rational kernel. Freud 's rational kernel is focussing on mother -child relationship as the primary source of learning basic humans language, culturally guided _individual_ behavior , overall socialization in the most formative caring labor relationship; not just pathology .

https://www.marxists.org/archive/caudwell/1938/studies/ch07.htm

Male supremacy, greed and war are not in our genes

The male supremacist family, private property (classes; greed), and the state ( special repressive apparatus ) arises as a complex together circa 6,000 years ago in Mesopotamia.  They are still together in a complex that dominates the human species in 2018. Before that for the about 2.5 million years of the Stone Age ( true Civilization) there was gender equivalence, sharing and peace in the species; that's when we were substantially "hardwired " genetically . So, Male supremacy and class divided society and war are not in our genes.