"James Daly" <[email protected]> wrote: > Marx never wrote the 15 galley sheets he famously calculated necessary for an > expose of Hegel's method, and it seems strange he left the task to Engels, > who did not have Marx's professional background in philosophy.
I think that there were a number of people that would have liked Marx to exclude Hegel's ideas, but Marx considered him to be great. Marx claimed to be using the scientific method, and left the rest of us to decide on how he was applying it. > The notion of dialectics seems often to reduce to claiming something turns > into its opposite. I think that Engels has it pretty close to right in that there are opposing factors in nature and human society and that we just need to sort those out. Lenin and the Russian Communists seem to use the idea of contradiction to an idea instead making dialectics into a word game. -- Ron
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