Dear Devine / To relate each contradiction with its results is to return to an explanation established in causality. In fact, it will lead to the abandonment of the totality notion./ Mário
----- Original Message ----- From: "Devine, James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 2:31 PM Subject: Re: absolute general law of capitalist accumulation/dialectics and logic Charles:>The contradictions dealt with in the absolute general law of capitalist accumulation are the poverty and unemployment that inherently accompany technological progress under capitalist relations of production, a contradiction of regress and progress, with regress being "absolute" and progress relative.< me: I'd say that poverty and unemployment are _results_ of the contradiction. ^^^^^^ CB: A result of which contradiction ? ------------------ the class contradiction. Capitalist class domination encourages the existence of unemployment, for example, to motivate people to do alienated labor & to accept exploitation. But under certain circumstances, e.g., Nazi Germany, there isn't much unemployment at all. Brute force replaces it. jd
