Re: Re: Re: Marx's materialism

2000-04-04 Thread Mathew Forstater
Interesting, because Krader's work on nomadic pastoralists is also excellent. -Original Message- From: Rod Hay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, April 03, 2000 7:31 PM Subject: [PEN-L:17694] Re: Re: Marx's materialism >And I must forceably put f

Re: Re: Re: Re: Marx's materialism

2000-04-03 Thread Rod Hay
No point in continuing this line of discussion. We don't disagree. In a short post it is impossible to even mention all aspects of the dialectic. Interdependence is one aspect. Wholism is another. From those two internal relations can be derived. The question between materialism and idealism is t

Re: Re: Re: Marx's materialism

2000-04-03 Thread Ted Winslow
Rod Hay wrote: > Second, it not an unusual position in twentieth century social science to > admit the dialectic between matter and idea. There are those who > occassionally go overboard (strict structuralists, sociobiologists, etc.) > but Carrol is right, very few deny the relationship. The task

Re: Re: Re: Marx's materialism

2000-04-02 Thread Jim Devine
At 08:05 PM 04/02/2000 -0400, you wrote: >I would add that to discuss Marx's materialism, one would have to take into >account the twentieth century contributions to the understanding of 'matter' >and 'energy' > >Second, it not an unusual position in twentieth century social science to >admit the