In a message dated 3/24/2010 9:34:31 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, _cb31...@gmail.com_ (mailto:cb31...@gmail.com) writes:
CB: Well, a contradiction is sort of ripe to be superceded (sorry Althusser) when it is an antagonism. So, in this sense it is more _ready_ for resolution than a non-antagonistic contradiction. But in its state of antagonism it is not resolved, it is still in contradiction, sharp contradiction. Another problem with this is that it is using "antagonism" in contradiction (ha) with the its standard, let alone Marxist, dictionary definition. Comment The presumption is that non-antagonistic and antagonistic contradiction is a misunderstanding of society transition form one mode of production to another; a historical error. Sorry Soviet Textbook. Sorry Chairman Mao. Sorry old school Marxists. Contradiction or rather contradiction internal to a process - quality, is just that, no more no less. Each stage in the development of contradiction, prepares the basis for its further development and resolution. The problem is that the bourgeoisie and proletariat evolve as a contradiction and - but, are birthed in antagonism - not contradiction, with the feudal order and its underlying contradictions. Fpr CB Antagonism: 7.0 Antagonism is the basis of destruction and a form of transition to a new mode of production. It is a form of resolution of relations of production (property) as these relations enters into collision with qualitatively changing productive forces. That is to say the collision between qualitatively new productive forces and old relations of production in class society, cannot be resolved based on the struggle between the two classes constituting the old relations of production. Resolution takes place outside - external, the contradiction of the two classes constituting old relations of production. Resolution is negation by destruction of the two old classes and their property form.. "The bourgeois mode of production is the last antagonistic form of the social process of production – antagonistic not in the sense of individual antagonism but of an antagonism that emanates from the individuals' social conditions of existence – but the productive forces developing within bourgeois society create also the material conditions for a solution of this antagonism.(Marx). (see Dialectics: quantity, quality, the antagonistic element.) This email was cleaned by emailStripper. I believe the above is much more accurate, but who can understand it except those studied in Marxism. Which defeats the purpose of a glossary and converts it into a dictionary of Marxist Thought. _______________________________________________ Marxist-Leninist-List mailing list Marxist-Leninist-List@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxist-leninist-list
