Yes, antagonism is a contradiction that cannot be resolved without a qualitative change in the system.
On 3/24/10, waistli...@aol.com <waistli...@aol.com> wrote: > 7.5 > > > Antagonism: > > 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 > that have entered into collision with qualitatively changing productive > forces. (see productive forces) > > In class society, the collision between qualitatively new productive forces > and old relations of production, cannot be resolved based on the struggle > between the two classes constituting the old relations of production. > Resolution takes place outside - external, the contradiction that is the two > classes constituting old relations of production. The external agent is the > new classes connected to the new means 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.) > > > > _______________________________________________ > Marxism-Thaxis mailing list > Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu > To change your options or unsubscribe go to: > http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis > _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
