economy

In working toward breaking down immediacy, remember that there are many kinds of immediacy and mediation, not just those common in Marxist theories.

Fair enough, but you still don't give the economic factors enough recognition. Think of our enslavement to capitalism, etc., etc.

My talk about systems is supposed to make room for economic issues, but it's true that I am skeptical of the usefulness of assigning all bad effects to any one cause, such as "capitalism." With my emphasis on complexity I can't accept any single-factor explanation of our situation today. Still, in our systemic relations with nature, and our social relations with one another, exchange -- in a broad sense -- cannot be avoided. Markets seem our best social incarnation of exchange so far, and while there is no necessity that markets have our particular capitalist property relations and dominance of exchange value -- in the specialized sense -- we have not found other ways to do markets. There are also powerful forces against any larger structural change, but also we don't have any clear idea what such change would aim at, even though we are hounded by the excesses of the current system.

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