a lot of the old CP had a pretty poor understanding of dialectics, seeing dialectics as a set of formulas for cranking out pat answers. (It's a little like Trotsky's embarrassing presentation in his debate with Burnham in what must have been his worst book, IN DEFENSE OF MARXISM.)
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine > -----Original Message----- > From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Charles > Brown > Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 8:10 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [PEN-L] Panglossian economics > > > >In short, what's missing from Fogel, et al is a dialectical view on > history. > >-- > >Yoshie > > But, how could that be? Fogel was the head of the CP Youth years ago. > Michael > > ^^^^^ > CB: Why it's none other than dialectics: Things and people change. > :>) >
