Ruled classes’ resistance to oppression/exploitation is instinctive

Karl : "This is an idealist formulation. Resistance to oppression is not hardwired into the human psyche; it would not have existed in pre-class society.

CB: Resistance to oppression didn't exist in pre-class society , because there was no oppression in pre-class society ! Class oppression originates with class society , of course.

And since the central thesis of the Manifesto is that Resistence to class oppression was in _every_ class society ( history is a history of class struggles), Resistence is not historically specific; Resistence is trans-historical , and therefore is inborn , not learned. Humans have an inborn , hard wired sense of equality to other humans, that's why they resist in every historical period.

This is a materialist formulation: biology is materialism ; species being.

////// Resistance is engendered dialectically by oppression, which as Marx and Engels revealed, creates its own gravediggers.

(((( CB : How would oppression "engender" Resistence ? It doesn't engender Resistence in beasts of burden; only Homo sapiens . It's instinctive for Homo sapiens.

On 22 Apr 2015 22:41, "Charles Brown" wrote: The ruled classes' struggle is instinctive struggle is instinctive

An unstated premise of the Manifesto is that humans instinctively struggle against exploitation and oppression; there is an instinct of equality. Otherwise, history wouldn't be a history of class struggles , because the ruling classes certainly don't teach the ruled classes to resist . So, the ruled classes' motivation to struggle is instinctive, not learned, nature , not nurture.