[email protected] wrote: > > Dialectical Materialism is a method of thinking > That every event is connected
This is idealism (or simple-minded Hegelianism). Capitalism _tends_ towards being a totality, and to that extent is subject to dialectical analysis. But history as a whole is probably _not_ dialectical. Contingency remains an ultimate power. Read Gould on evolution and the importance there of contingency. Orgasms are (or are close to being) totalities, and to that extent subject todialectical understanding. An understanding of continggency was behind Rosa Luxemburg's phrase "socialism or barbarism." She understood that nothign was certain in human affairs and that barbarissm was a real possibility, Carrol ________________________________________________ YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
