John Dewey

From Human nature and conduct by John Dewey, 1922

. . . . . . the class struggle grows between those whose productive labor is enforced by necessity and those who are privileged consumers. And the exaggeration due to its isolation from ignored consumption so hypnotizes attention that even would-be reformers, like Marxian socialists, assert that the entire social problem focuses at the point of production. Since this separation of means from ends signifies an erection of means into ends, it is no wonder that a � materialistic conception of history � emerges. It is not an invention of Marx ; it is a record of fact so far as the separation in question obtains. For practicable idealism is found only in a fulfillment, a consumption which is a replenishing, growth, renewal of mind and body. Harmony of social interests is found in the wide-spread sharing of activities significant in themselves, that is to say, at the point of consumption.* But the forcing of production apart from consumption leads to the monstrous belief that class-struggle civil war is a means of social progress, instead of a register of the barriers to its attainment. . . .

      * Acknowledgment is due � The Social Interpretation of History � by Maurice William.

New York : The Modern Library, 1957, pages 272-3.

Bibliographic notes

Title John Dewey and Arthur F. Bentley: a philosophical correspondence,1932-1951 / Selected and edited by Sidney Ratner and Jules Altman, with James E.Wheeler as associate editor.With an introd.by Sidney Ratner. Publisher New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers U.P. 1964

Author Dewey, John, 1859-1952. Title Knowing and the known / John Dewey and Arthur F. Bentley. Publisher Boston : Beacon Press, 1949.

Dewey, John, 1859-1952. Title Human nature and conduct; an introduction to social psychology. Publisher New York Modern Library [c1957] Description 336p. Series Modern library of the world's best books Language English Note Half-title: The Modern library of the world's best books.

Author Buell, Raymond Leslie, 1896-1946. Title Are sanctions necessary to international organizatons? Yes [by] Raymond Leslie Buell. No [by] John Dewey. Publisher New York : Foreign Policy Association, 1932.

Dewey, John, 1859-1952. Title Human nature and conduct : an introduction to social psychology / by John Dewey. Publisher London : Allen & Unwin, [1922?] { New York, H. Holt and Company, 1922. } Description vii, 336 p. ; 20 cm. Language English