[Marxism] Dialectics

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Lance Murdoch wrote:
>
> I think
> some people don't want to consider this in a materialist fashion, with
> the consideration that along with negative consequences of the
> invasion of Iraq, there were positive consequences as well.  Wouldn't
> that make sense from a dialectical perspective?

No.

If the sun went nova tomorrow, that would I suppose be positive from the
point of view that no one would starve to death any longer, since we'd
all be dead. Assuming that everything has a "good side" and a "bad side"
is absurd, and has nothing to do with dialectics. First show by concrete
historical analysis that the invasion has anything good about it before
you start labelling things "dialectical" or "undialectical."

Carrol

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