An explanation of Antagonism as contradiction
Introduction
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The concept of antagonism in contradictions remains perhaps the most difficult of Marx and Engels conception of social development and process
In a message dated 7/7/02 7:41:36 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Carrol
P.S. I think Mao is given a bad rap by those who wrench his works out of
their context in the Chinese Revolution. In his use of the terms
"antagonistic" and "non-antagonistic" contradictions Mao (at
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Nancy writes: I guess my question is, What *is* a dialectical approach?
In their THE DIALECTICAL BIOLOGIST, Levins Lewontin have a useful
description of the dialectical approach, though it's hardly
Title: RE: [PEN-L:27703] Re: dialectical approach
Scott Harrison writes: I haven't read The Dialectical Biologist, but if these three points fairly represent Levins Lewontin's views, then they have left out the single most important thing about dialectics and the dialectical method (although
Jim wrote:
However, I think it's a mistake to assert that Everything in the world
(and
also in human society and in human thought) is composed of dialectical
contradictions. In view of the idea that dialectical thinking is more of a
set of questions than a set of pre-digested answers,
Devine, James wrote:
However, I think it's a mistake to assert that Everything in the world (and also in
human society and in human thought) is composed of dialectical contradictions.
Whether or not everything is composed of dialectical contradictions, Jim
is quite right to say that it
Taken from Karl Marx Afterword to Second German Edition of Capital 1873.
After a quotation from the preface to my "Criticism of Political Economy," Berlin, 1859, pp. IV-VII, where I discuss the materialistic basis of my method, the writer goes on:
"The one thing which is of moment to Marx, is
Title: dialectical approach
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Nancy writes: I guess my question is, What *is* a dialectical approach?
In their THE DIALECTICAL BIOLOGIST, Levins Lewontin have a useful description of the dialectical approach, though it's hardly the only
