Russ,
If you don't mind, can you give me a brief explanation of the difference
between the two?
Thanks
Pete
Hi Pete,
Okey doke. This is an old hot chestnut for Thaxians and one that sharply
divides us!
Raymond Williams summarises it nicely:
'Historical materialism refers to human
Mick Hume gets it right!
This article was originally published in The Times (London) on 6 December
1999
'The disparate demonstrations against capitalism represented more of a
general moan about life than a movement to change the world'
by Mick Hume, LM editor
When Karl Marx suggested that
CB and CB roast the old chestnut:
"Here, as in
natural science, is shown the
correctness of the law discovered
by Hegel (in his "Logic"), that
merely quantitative differences
beyond a certain point pass into
qualitative changes."
If that doesn't prove our case,
I don't know what would.
Well,
Charles: The point here in debate is not whether matter obeys dialectical
laws, but whether Karl Marx believed that it does. The above is some very
good evidence that he did. And there is a lot more that he did .
So, instead of treating Marx as infallible, with whom you can't disagree,
why
Charles, Chris and Hugh engage in some metaphysical tomfoolery, viz:
Hugh
Yes, but if mental processes are dialectical, are they at the same time
part of the material world and material as well? And doesn't the material
world in that case follow dialectical laws? And where does the boundary
Monika:
I completely disagree with this. I don't feel that we
need to be single issue people!
Depends what the issues are!
I'm all for the romance of revolution and there's plenty of the old and new
romantic about me, but when Romanticism itself gets crawls forth in Turtle
garb, well then
Hi John,
I am not sure what the actual point here is in this rather peculiar
discussion but as Marxists are we opposed to turtle costumes in
principle or is it a pragmatic objection to the trivialisation of
politics.
No it's an objection to Green ideology to which I'll have no truck. That
Lew writes:
Whether Engels turned this materialist methodology into a metaphysics
(as I believe) or not, the issue now is one of political practice. In
what way does "dialectical materialism" contribute to the struggle for
socialism?
It hinders the struggle by turning Marx into a
Any commodity that's bought has use-value in the economic as far
as the transaction is concerned. A commodity that gets sold has both
exchange value and use value, full stop. A commodity that doesn't, don't.
This even goes for such things as poison gases, plutonium, warheads,
landmines, Maggie
Russ's point is that everything flows/panta rhei, except very occasionally
and under pretty strong constraints.
Not so much that, but I'll grant I've learnt one hell of a lot from this
little exchange. What I was thinking of was that if capital is the social
relationship between people
Charles chirrups:
Is it a commodity only in the instant when it is changing hands or is
there some special time frame in which it is a commodity ?
There's some relatively interesting guff on this in relation to sacred
objects and objects used for exchange in traditional societies. In the
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to RIP. The old Revolutionary Communist Party after its demise as a
political party has finally taken The Last Step and ceased to be
Living at all.
Their consistent idiosyncrasies will be sorely missed, as will their
smart
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