> From: "Charles Brown" <CharlesB at cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us>
> Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 14:04:25 -0500
> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
> Subject: Determinism and Marxism
>
> Determinism and Marxism
> From: P.J.Wells at open.ac.uk
>
> Thanks to Jim for the note on Plekhanov.
> ^^^^^^^^
>
> CB: I don't know how much Engels was familiar with the statistical literature,
> but I think it is in _Anti-Duhring_ that he says in the dialectic of chance
> and necessity, laws assert themselves in the form of a vast number of chance
> events.
>
why, that's very nearly chaos theory, no? not meaning to make engels into a chaos theorist or even proto-chaos theorist, but the phrase rang the bell.
curious.