Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Dialectical materialism

2006-01-17 Thread Ralph Dumain
Encyclopedia entries like these can always be improved upon. There is one paragraph in this one which puzzles me. See below. Examples would have helped. Of course there have been philosophers interested in dialectical materialism as an ontology independent of its political marxist

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Dialectical materialism

2006-01-17 Thread Jim Farmelant
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 18:42:49 -0500 Ralph Dumain [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Encyclopedia entries like these can always be improved upon. There is one paragraph in this one which puzzles me. See below. Examples would have helped. Of course there have been philosophers interested in

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Dialectical materialism

2006-01-17 Thread Waistline2
Here is the fun part. Marx is quoted as stating: Merely quantitative differences, beyond a certain point, pass into qualitative changes. --Karl Marx, Capital, Vol. 1. This is translated as number two of the three laws of dialectics. The three laws of dialectics are: *The law of the

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Dialectical materialism - What!

2006-01-17 Thread Waistline2
I wrote, for about the twentieth time over the past four years, in response to by dear friend and Comrade CB: It is not accurate to say that quantity or quantitative change turns into qualitative change and quality turns into quantity because this expresses only a perceptual understanding of