[lbo-talk] What Would Have to Happen First

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Mon Feb 15 12:32:24 PST 2010


Since this particular prediction of Marx turned out to be total bullshit, it's probably best that "Marxism" "in" "almost" "all" "of" "its" "forms" "ignores" "this" "essential" "dialectical" "feature" "of" "Marx's" "historical" "materialism."

Would you please cut it out with the quotation marks already? God it's irritating.

----- Original Message ---- From: Ted Winslow <egwinslow at rogers.com>

It's by doing this that capitalism "itself begets its own negation with the inexorability which governs the metamorphoses of nature" so that "capitalist property, resting as it actually does already on a form of collective production, cannot do other than transform itself into social property."

"Marxism" in almost all of its forms ignores this essential "dialectical" feature of Marx's "historical materialism," the feature that constitutes human history as "different stages in the development of the human mind."

One example is the Marxist "crisis" theory that, ignoring the wider ontological and anthropological framework of which it's part, reduces Marx's own theory to the bath water that is "the law of the tendency of the rate of profit to fall."

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