Re: The 'formalising' of dialectics.

On Jul 7, 5:26=A0am, rab <rogeralanblackw...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On 2 Jul, 03:13, "Jim F." <m...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > "rab" <rogeralanblackw...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > It is only by taking a critical attitude to this 'formalising of
> > > dialectics' that we can develop dialectical materialism today but
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> > > work doesn't easily fit into the everyday consciousness because in
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> > > struggle to grasp even works by Hegel the mind tends to 'formalise'
> > > the content in order to understand the logic espoused. =A0It is
> > > necessary to suspend 'judgement' for a time and just follow the
> > > 'argument' in the order that this 'content' may stimulate new
thought
> > > through contradiction. =A0Whilst the work of some of those soviet
> > > philosophers may be useful in presenting the 'bare bones' of
> > > dialectical categories and their interconnections it is necessary to
> > > understand the 'active' side of dialectics and the fact that it
> > > develops through struggle.
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> > So what's peoples opinion here concerning Rosa Lichtenstein's
> > Anti-dialectics website at:
=A0http://homepage.ntlworld.com/rosa.l/inde=
x.htm
> > She argues that dialectics is unnecessary to Marxism and indeed has
> > been harmful to it. =A0She rejects dialectics whether in the form of
> > orthodox materialism or in the more heterodox varieties of
> > Western Marxism (i.e. Gramsci, Lukacs, Sartre, Horkheimer etc.)
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> > Jim F.
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> Lots of people have been 'opposed to dialectics' since the time of
> Marx and Engels. =A0However, Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Trotsky all saw
> dialectical materialism as central to their world outlook. =A0So why is
> just another anti-dialectician worth reading?

To attack it. How often is there an entry point to arguing dialectics
within the Anglo-American left?

srd