Re: Galvano Della Volpe

["Charles Brown" <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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 Della Volpe analyzed Marx's
methodology as one which followed the pattern of Concrete-
Abstract-Concrete (C-A-C), which is the pattern or circle of
scientific materialist dialectics (as opposed to Hegelian
dialectics which follows the circle of Abstract-Concrete-
Abstract).

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CB: Interesting summary of Della Volpe. I thought Marx explicitly used this
terminology at one point in describing his own method , and I thought he said he
proceeded from the abstract to the concrete. For example, Vol. I of Capital is
abstract relative to Vol.'s II and III.  In it, production proper is abstracted 
from
production as a whole. Vol. III is relatively more concrete and holistic. 
However,
Della Volpe could say that before he wrote Capital , Marx investigated lot of 
data
first, which in some sense would be more concrete.