It depresses me that we still have to have these discussions in 2005. But
once more into the breach . . .
First, I'd suggest looking at Engels' motives for doing what he did, which
was not to present a finished ontology for all time but to combat the
half-assed philosophical vulgarities of his
>>Evolution punctuated by revolution is another way of saying quantitative
change turns into qualitative change.
Socially, the ebb and flow of reform is evolutionary. It is change without
changing the mode of production out of capitalism. Socialist revolution is a
leap in which the mode of product
>>Lil Joe comment: Actually, there is no Black bourgeoisie because there is no
Black nation: Blacks in the US are either capitalists, professionals,
working class or and chronically unemployed, and in these economic
categories the Black capitalists no different from White capitalists, Black
workers
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 13:51:13 -0800 (PST) andie nachgeborenen
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> revolutions come from science done by
> non-dialectically trained thinkers -- Lavoisier's
> discovery of oxygen, Einstein's theory of relativity,
> H
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 13:51:13 -0800 (PST) andie nachgeborenen
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> I have always wondered about the fruitfulness of
> abstract consideration of "dialectics," particularly
> where they are (it is?) discussed as a "method." Here
> Jim F seems to suggest the SJG thought th
I have always wondered about the fruitfulness of
abstract consideration of "dialectics," particularly
where they are (it is?) discussed as a "method." Here
Jim F seems to suggest the SJG thought that dialectics
was a "method" or at least a heuristic for producing
hypotheses. I have never seen any
Here is what Stephen Jay Gould had to say about punctuationism
and dialectics in his book, *The Panda's Thumb.
There, in the essay "Episodic Evolutionary Change," he wrote:
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If gradualism is more a product of Western thought than a fact of nature,
then we should conside
Snip: "The political landscape of Black America has changed dramatically
since the 80s because a new bread of Black people in America have separated
themselves from the masses. A new breed of Black folks who consistently
judge and sometimes treat other Black people more harshly than they judge
a
Marxism-Thaxis] OudeyisHegel,
Marx, and, for that matter, Jay Gould (he and Dan Dennett - the
American reductionist philosopher - fought over this issue) did not regard
development to be incremental or continuous. The dialectic, the successive
emergence of negations of previous conditions sugges
Hegel, Marx, and, for that matter, Jay Gould (he and Dan Dennett - the
American reductionist philosopher - fought over this issue) did not regard
development to be incremental or continuous. The dialectic, the successive
emergence of negations of previous conditions suggests that development hops
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