[lbo-talk] Dustup - final installment

Shane Mage shmage at pipeline.com
Thu Jul 31 12:30:09 PDT 2008


On Jul 31, 2008, at 1:19 PM, James Heartfield wrote:


> Ted writes "these ideas
> provide the ontological and anthropological framework of all Marx's
> writings, early and late"
>
> but all of your examples seem to be taken from the 1844 Manuscripts,
> when Marx was still using Hegelian terminology.

Das Kapital is permeated not only with "Hegelian terminology" but, crucially, with the methodology of the Hegelian dialectic (though Marx always made sure that his Hegelian world was unmistakably standing on its feet). And that is why Lenin, on reading the Science of Logic, recognized that Kapital could not be understood without a deep understanding of Hegel.

Shane Mage

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