On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 01:51 PM, Mark Baugher wrote: > > I can't agree that you have more than half the story here. You're missing > the dialectical relationship between structure (base) and superstructure.
1) OK, if I discern a conflict between means and relations of production as a feature common to U&CD and struggles for "self-determination" and that's no more than half the story, what's your other half, concretely? Pick a country, Ireland, Indonesia, Angola, Mexico and provide that "other half" that leads you to reject (or at least "not see") the connection. 2) While it's been my experience that when one party introduces a buzzword like "dialectical" as an argument. the discussion is pretty much over. But my experience might not be more than half the story. I trust your concrete analysis that refutes mine will be fully "dialectical" whatever the f**k that means. I mean almost everyone uses "dialectical" as a gut-check as in "your argument isn't dialectical, but mine is." So what do you mean by the "dialectical relationship between structure (base) and superstructure"? What are the elements of a dialectical relationship; what makes those elements dialectical; what and how do such categories refute Marx's categorization in his "Introduction..." ? 3) FWIW My take is that the conflict between means and relations of production is precisely the relationship of base and superstructure that defines the "era of social revolution" all pretenses at dialectical mystification to the contrary notwithstanding. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#34625): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/34625 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/110506717/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
