When, at last, it becomes the real representative of the whole of
society, it renders itself unnecessary. As soon as there is no longer
any social class to be held in subjection; as soon as class rule, and
the individual struggle for existence based upon our present anarchy
in production, with the
The fact that the socialized organization of production within the
factory has developed so far that it has become incompatible with the
anarchy of production in society, which exists side by side with and
dominates it, is brought home to the capitalist themselves by the
violent concentration of ca
Frederick Engels
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
III [Historical Materialism] (continued)
We have seen that the capitalistic mode of production thrust its way
into a society of commodity-producers, of individual producers, whose
social bond was the exchange of their products. But every soci
Frederick Engels
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
III
[Historical Materialism]
The materialist conception of history starts from
In the next two paragraphs of the chapter “Dialectics” of _Socialism:
Utopian and Scientific_, Engels describes Rosa L’s contradiction
“free”, metaphysical , formal logical thinking.
CB
^^^
But this conception (dialectics), correctly as it expresses the
general character of the picture of app
Below, Engels explains further the “is and is not” of Hegelian or
dialectical contradiction. Can Rosa see it , yet ?
CB
Frederick Engels
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
II
[Dialectics]
In the meantime, along with and after the French philosophy of the
18th century, had arisen the new German p
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Frederick Engels
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
II
[Dialectics]
Further, we find upon closer investigation that the two poles of an
antithesis, positive and negative, e.g., are as inseparable as they
are opposed, and that despite all their opposition, they mutually
interpenetrate. And we fin
Frederick Engels
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
II
[Dialectics]
In the meantime, along with and after the French philosophy of
On 10/22/09, Shane Mage wrote:
>
> On Oct 22, 2009, at 7:54 AM, c b wrote:
> >
> > Rosa: ” For Marx, putting Hegel on ‘his feet’ is to crush his head.”
> >
> > CB: Oh really
> > If Marx used absolutely nothing of Hegel, totally extirpated him, then
> > why does he say he is a follower of the great
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On Oct 22, 2009, at 7:54 AM, c b wrote:
>
> Rosa: ” For Marx, putting Hegel on ‘his feet’ is to crush his head.”
>
> CB: Oh really
> If Marx used absolutely nothing of Hegel, totally extirpated him, then
> why does he say he is a follower of the great thinker; why does he not
> say , “I totally th
Now back to the contradiction in “John is a man”.
Put succinctly, John is both the same and different from Joe, Rosa,
Charles or any other “man”, human. Their sameness is their humanity,
their type. The difference is their particularity, individuality. The
contradiction of the type with the indivi
Then here I recalled another clear Hegelianism in a major statement by
Marx in _Capital_, contra Rosa L. ( and Andy Austin , from ten years
ago here on Thaxis) claim that Marx crushed Hegel's head when he and
Engels stood him on his feet.
Charles
Karl Marx. Capital Volume One ;Chapter Thirty-Two
This is more from over at
http://marxisthumanistinitiative.org/2009/05/05/brief-comments-on-the-relationship-between-marxism-and-the-hegelian-dialectic/comment-page-2/#comment-147
where Rosa L argues that Marx's "method" , his "dialectic" , is
totally not Hegel's, that he "extirpates" Hegel.
CB:
Rosa L: Fortunately, we needn’t speculate about Marx’s opinion of
Hegel since he very kindly added the following comments to Das
Kapital:
“After a quotation from the preface to my ‘Criticism of Political
Economy,’ Berlin, 1859, pp. IV-VII, where I discuss the materialistic
basis of my method, the
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