Re: The 'formalising' of dialectics.

On Jul 7, 6:36=A0pm, Tom Cod <t...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> A Workers League guy once told me years ago that dialectics is summed
> by the critique of formal logic's "A=3DA" =A0OK, but A does equal A-at
an=
y
> particular point in time.

As far as I can tell without taking significant time, this is the
_basic_ error involved in Rosa Lichtenstein's critique. The ultimate
thrust of dialectics is to deny the existence of a "point in time."
Trotsky goes into this in "In Defense of Marxism." This is a logical
rather than empirical matter. Thus the lack of relevant direct
evidence.

srd