As an anarchist, I often hear questions about how, exactly, we would stay safe in a world full of rapists and murderers without the state’s protective monopoly over violence.
So I often have to remind people that not only does the state often decline to protect people facing harm…
@HeavenlyPossum I think it comes down to this: Are human beings essentially good? Or evil?
Marx saw humans as essentially good natured, with crime and cruelty being primarily caused by privation and capitalism.
Freud saw humans as essentially neurotic and depraved without the intervention of the superego.
Capitalists seem to see humans as nothing but mindless cattle to be exploited and exterminated.
I don't know. Maybe people are just what they have to be to survive in their personal circumstances. There are evil ones and good ones. I tend to believe that more people are good than evil, though.
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where did marx ever say that humans were essentially good natured?
indeed, he did attribute the existence of crime to class society, but he didnt make any sweeping claims about the inherent moral nature of humans.
"But the essence of man is no abstraction inherent in each single individual. In reality, it is the ensemble of the social relations." —theses on feuerbach
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