>> Marx has not "pushed beyond the realm of causality". He's reconceived it by
>> sublating the Newtonian conception of nature - a determinist external
>> relations conception having no logical space for a coherent idea of freedom
>> of any kind let alone of human freedom (or for a coherent conception of
>> "causation" for that matter - see Hume).
>
> Not quite, that was Kant's specific achievement, to create a model of
> cognition based on the natural science of the day. Hegel pushed beyond
> this to the Mind, which somehow encompassed all of history within it.
> Remember, the "iron laws" of capitalist development (not to be confused
> with natural laws) aren't something positive for Marx; they're something
> negative, something to be overthrown by the Revolution. Marx's early work
> traces out those laws, wrestles with them, etc., but his later work --
> "Capital" -- makes the decisive break towards resisting them.
Eh?
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