On Jul 30, 2012, at 2:11 PM, c b wrote:
http://www.marxists.org/subject/japan/uchida/index.htm
Hiroshi Uchida (1988)
Marx's Grundrisse and Hegel's Logic
In 1916 Lenin, in the margins of his copy of Hegel's The Science of
Logic, made perhaps his most profound, and surely his most ignored
[including by Uchida], statement: "It is impossible to understand
Marx's Das Kapital without a profound grasp of Hegel's Logic.
Consequently, fifty years later none of the Marxists have understood
Marx."
Fixated on Aristotle the empiricist, Uchida seems hypnotized by the
materialist illusion still present in the earliest Marx:
In The holy family of 1845 he discusses Hegel's mode of
presentation, writing, for example, that many forms of fruit really
exist, so 'man' may abstract 'fruit in general' as an idea. Hegel,
however, reverses the process, insisting that at the beginning 'fruit
in general' exists as substance, and it posits many particular forms
of fruit as positive subjects. Marx reveals the secret of Hegel's
philosophy, which presupposes an ideal subject par excellence, even
though this subject is in reality a 'thought-product' or abstraction
that exists merely in the mind.
For Aristotle, the concept of "fruit," like all universals, is a
convenient label to cover perceived-as-similar phenomena. While this
may reflect how primitive humans formed concepts it is, in an evolving
reality, totally unscientific. Fruits existed for eons before humans
and no empirical generalization can be formed from unexperienced
phenomena. Fruit is a necessary evolutionary consequence of the
existence of seed-bearing (flowering) plants and is such has always
existed "ideally" as a *possibility* inherent to the laws governing
the evolution of life (and of course was actualized through the line
of evolution followed by our planet).. These laws are substantial--
they exist independent of any temporal particular material reality.
Hegel here is the Platonist (idea=substance) and it is that line of
thought, not Aristotle's, that is in this case, as in so many others,
"fruitful."
Shane Mage
This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
kindling in measures and going out in measures."
Herakleitos of Ephesos
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