Re: [Marxism] O, Dialectics!

["acpollack2@xxxxxxxx" <acpollack2@xxxxxxxx>]

If by yes you mean dialectics is only about history, not nature, then NO.
See most recently the piece in the current Monthly Review on the 20th 
anniversary of The Dialectical Biologist.
And you can't understand galaxy clusters without dialectics either....

-- "Paul H. Dillon" <illonph@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yes.

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From: "Marc Mulholland" <marc.mulholland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: [Marxism] O, Dialectics!


> I've never really got my head around 'dialectics', nor had much
> inclination to
> try, but my uderstanding was that the application of dialectics to nature
> was
> due to Engels' misunderstanding of what Marx was on about (I can
> sympathise).
> Marx used dialectics only to understand social-pychology as far as I can
> gather:
> it describes a philosophy of history, not a philosophy of everything.
>
> --
> Dr Marc Mulholland
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