WL: The antagonism being lived out during the time of Marx was between the
evolution and rise of the industrial system and its bourgeois mode of
production
versus the landed property relations and its political superstructure called
feudalism.
^^^ CB: But this is not the way in which Marx and
One way to think of it is that antagonistic contradictions are
irreconcilable. One side or the other of the contradiction has to go. Or one
side can't gain without the other side losing ( zero sum game is
antagonistic contradiction.
But like all definitions, this is limited .
Charles
CB: What you quote below doesn't have the word antagonism in it that I
find.
WL: That is because the antagonism is explained in detail rather than
screaming from the roof top antagonism.
CB: But the activity of Communists is not with respect to development
of the productive forces, but to
WL: The antagonism being lived out during the time of Marx was between the
evolution and rise of the industrial system and its bourgeois mode of
production versus the landed property relations and its political
superstructure called feudalism.
^^^
CB: But this is not the way in which Marx and
WL: The antagonism being lived out during the time of Marx was between the
evolution and rise of the industrial system and its bourgeois mode of
production
versus the landed property relations and its political superstructure called
feudalism.
^^^ CB: But this is not the way in which Marx
CB: But this is not the way in which Marx and Engels use antagonism to
describe the antagonism being lived out during the time of Marx and Engels.
They use antagonism to refer to the irreconcilable conflict or
contradiction between antagonistic classes, not, as you say, between the
evolution and
