Sunday, January 22, 2012

basing your theory of the motives behind class history on just one of the four social passions leaves you with an open system



"Of the four passions we have enumerated, only one, namely
acquisitiveness, is concerned at all directly with men's relations to
their material conditions."

 The other three--vanity, rivalry, and love of power

are concerned with social relations."


 I think this is the source of what is erroneous in the Marxian interpretation of history

marxism  tacitly assumes that acquisitiveness is the source of all political actions."