Bhaskar's entry in the Dictionary

Chris Burford cburford at gn.apc.org
Sun Jan 10 14:37:05 PST 1999


Apologies that this went off to the wrong list, before I could stop it.

CB

At 20:59 10/01/99 +0000, I wrote:
>Further from Bhaskar's entry on Dialectics in the Dictionary of Marxist
>Thought, Bhaskar whom Andrew claims supports him entirely, states,
>
>"Often Marx uses "dialectical" as synonym for 'scientific' method."
>
>Clearly Marx was interested in the whole range of scientific knowledge as
>the discussion of organic compounds in Chapter 1 of Capital illustrates. It
>would be very strange if he did not consider the proper approach to that to
>be dialectical.
>
>"Absolutely incredible" of course for Andy if he did.
>
>Chris Burford
>
>London



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