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Since I fully accept Historical Materialism, there is no need for me to provide such an account (it would simply re-capitulate what Marx had to say -- minus, of course, the Hegelian jargon with which he merely "coquetted"). There are countless words in ordinary language that allow us to talk about change; here is a *greatly* shortened list; "Vary, alter, adjust, amend, make, produce, revise, improve, deteriorate, edit, bend, straighten, weave, dig, plough, sow, twist, turn, tighten, fasten, loosen, relax, tense up, slacken, bind, wrap, pluck, rip, tear, mend, perforate, repair, damage, mutate, metamorphose, transmute, sharpen, modify, develop, expand, contract, constrict, constrain, widen, lock, unlock, swell, flow, differentiate, divide, partition, unite, amalgamate, connect, fast, slow, swift, rapid, hasty, heat up, melt, harden, cool down, flash, shine, glow, drip, cascade, drop, pick up, fade, darken, wind, unwind, meander, peel, scrape, graze, file, scour, dislodge, is, was, will be, will have been, had, will have had, went, go, going, gone, return, lost, age, flood, precipitate, crumble, disintegrate, erode, corrode, rust, flake, shatter, percolate, seep, tumble, mix, separate, cut, chop, crush, grind, shred, slice, dice, saw, sew, knit, spread, coalesce, congeal, fall, climb, rise, ascend, descend, slide, slip, roll, spin, revolve, oscillate, undulate, rotate, wave, conjure, quickly, slowly, instantaneously, suddenly, gradually, rapidly, hastily, inadvertently, accidentally, extremely, snap, chew, gnaw, digest, ingest, excrete, join, resign, part, sell, buy, acquire, lose, find, search, explore, cover, uncover, reveal, stretch, depress, compress, lift, put down, win, ripen, germinate, conceive, gestate, abort, die, rot, perish, grow, decay, fold, many, more, less, fewer, steady, steadily, jerkily, smoothly, awkwardly, quickly, very, extremely, exceedingly, intermittent, discontinuous, continuous, continual, push, pull, slide, jump, sit, stand, run, chase, walk, swim, drown, immerse, plunge, break, split, charge, retreat, assault, squash, raze, demolish, dismantle, pulverise, disintegrate, dismember, replace, undo, reverse, repeal, enact, quash, throw, catch, hour, minute, second, instant, invent, innovate, rescind, destroy, annihilate, extirpate, boil, freeze, thaw, cook, liquefy, solidify, congeal, neutralise, flatten, crimple, evaporate, condense, dissolve, mollify, pacify, calm down, terminate, initiate, instigate, enrage, inflame, protest, challenge, expel, eject, remove, overthrow, expropriate, scatter, distribute, gather, assemble, defeat, strike, revolt, riot, march, demonstrate, rebel, campaign, agitate, organise..." Naturally, it would not be difficult to extend this list until it contained literally *tens of thousands* of words all capable of depicting countless changes in limitless detail (especially if it is augmented with the language of mathematics). It is only a *myth* put about by Hegel and other dialecticians that ordinary language cannot express change. On the contrary, it performs this task *far* better than the incomprehensible and impenetrably obscure jargon Hegel invented in order to fix something that was not broken. Rosa! ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
