[lbo-talk] How does the structure change ? Dialectic of dialects

Charles Brown charlesb at cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us
Thu Jun 5 14:30:15 PDT 2008


Dennis Claxton

Charles Brown wrote:


>Last year Butler won the first prize in the annual Bad Writing
Contest

Fucking hell Charles. That bogus contest was suspended for lack of interest ten years ago. Shouldn't you at least point that out if you're going to drag it in here?

^^^ CB: You aren't thinking clearly. I didn't post the contest. Somebody else did.

Secondly, I am _agreeing_ with Butler. My statement pronounces the same principle that she seems to make in her statement. I am agreeing with her long sentence. She seems to be describing how a structure changes - a dialecticians response to structuralism, perhaps the first post-structural principle. Structures change when practice based on the ideas of the structure comes into conflict with objective reality . Practice is the test of theory, a la the Second Thesis on Feuerbach. Necessity is the mother of invention. Special Contradiction between structure and event is the way that the structure can change. Structures are not self-changing because they are formal or symbolic logics for which non-contradiction is the first principle. It is the dialectical logic (with first principle is contradiction , the relationship between theory and practice, practical-critical or revolutionary activity ( see First Thesis on Feuerbach) that changes the structure.

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