absolute general law of capitalist accumulation

[Charles Brown <cbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

by Devine, James

dialectical thinking > is a system of logic in the Hegelian sense of the
word,
[which] is not "logic" in the Aristotelian or Russellian senses.<

exactly.

^^^^^
The Aristotelian and Russllian senses are formal logic, for which the first
principle is non-contradiction.

Non-contradiction seems to be a principle that math shares with formal
logic.  A fundamental form of math proof or disproof is to make an
assumption and derive a contradiction.

For dialectics the first principle is contradiction. So, yes dialectics is
not the same as formal logic ( Aristotelian and Russellian).

For formal logic , arriving at a contradiction means there is a mistake,
something is false. For dialectics, contradictions can be fruitful, drive
the process to finding a truth.

A dialectical question might be what contradictions is Marx dealing with in
the absolute general law of capitalist accumulation ?

Charles