[PEN-L:32492] Re: Re: Stallin Stalin 3 of 3

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In a message dated 11/22/02 11:54:55 PM Pacific Standard Time, soncu@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:

> Not that I disagree with that evolution of speculative capital
> contains a life of its own, that is, it is own laws, but I am not
> sure if we really can write down what exactly those laws are. Who
> knows! Maybe, we can approximate them as closely as possible for
> all practical purposes. Then, maybe not.
>
> Don't take this rant seriously. I was just taking a break from
> some boring garbage I am working on.
>
> Best,
> Sabri





Hardly a rant. I will the same feel concerning "law systems" as approximations, especially in the field of "social sciences." That is to say "approximations" becomes fixed in the minds as categories - more than less, or "law systems" as we seek to unravel - as abstraction, the historical and social process. 

This "thing" called the mode of production in material life is a complex of a billion billion compounded individual and collective interactions. Trying to unravel its self movement demands concepts like "fundamentality" and Marx assertion that "at a certain stage in the development of the material power of production." 

The intellectual community correctly spends generations unraveling the specificity of the meaning of "at a certain stage." 

"At a certain stage" is extrmely abstract, an approximation so to speak.

Melvin P.