Re: M-TH: Re: dialectical materialism

1999-08-06 Thread Andrew Wayne Austin
On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, Rob Schaap wrote: (a) 'material': an analytic foundation conceived of as an integration of two dynamics: the way a society reproduces its physical existence and the relations that constitute that society; Engels recognizes this in his best work, Origin of the Family,

M-TH: Re: dialectical materialism/activist materialism

1999-08-06 Thread Charles Brown
Rob Schaap [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/06/99 10:14AM G'day Thaxists, Look, I know we've been through all this before, but it is my conviction that politics is like a computer. You make an apparently small mistake with what you put in, and you get an absolute disaster coming out. To the diamat

M-TH: Re: dialectical materialism/activist materialism

1999-08-06 Thread Charles Brown
Just to follow up , the error of the claims that Engels and Lenin , etc. deviate from Marx's own method into "ideology" is the exact error that Marx criticizes in the Theses on Feuerbach. What is being termed "ideology" is actually the activist component , the "PRACTICAL-critical ACTIVITY"