absolute general law of capitalist accumulation/dialectics and logic

[Charles Brown <cbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

by Devine, James



I don't know about "motives," but obviously for Marx, the contradictions in
capitalism create possibilities for the emergence of socialism.

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CB: OK. Instead of "motives" , causes for it to change. The dialectical idea
is that everything changes, and the change is based on the contradictions
within the thing changing, and what it changes to is determined by the
nature of those contradictions, I think.

The contradiction of class divided society causes society to move toward
classless society.

This is a main preservation of Hegelian dialectics in Marx's sublation of
Hegel.

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>The contradictions dealt with in the absolute general law of capitalist
accumulation are the poverty and unemployment that inherently accompany
technological progress under capitalist relations of production, a
contradiction of regress and progress, with regress being "absolute" and
progress relative.<

I'd say that poverty and unemployment are _results_ of the contradiction.

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CB: A result of which contradiction ?