absolute general law of capitalist accumulation

[Charles Brown <cbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

by Devine, James

Charles asks:Are you saying someone has put Hegel (
or dialectics) into simpler language ?


No. I'm saying that Marx's dialectical and materialist perspective (in
CAPITAL)
can be translated into relatively common-sense terms by using a non-Hegelian

language.

Jd

^^^^^^^
I'm thinking the use of "absolute" in "the absolute general law of
capitalist accumulation" is in the opposition absolute/relative, as in
absolute and relative surplus value and other usages. However, here , Marx
does not mention a relative. Perhaps these are the exceptions , the non-"all
other things being equal", aspects. He mentions countervailing tendencies
when he describes the law of the tendency of the rate of profit to fall. But
here he says there are "relative" tendencies , but does not discuss them.
This seems a way to emphasize this particular law, maybe.

The funny thing is dialectics is logic. So, it is a way of talking about
things. Formal logic is a linguistic project. Why not dialectical logic to
some extent ?

I certainly am not opposed to the translation you suggest above.

CB