Re: absolute general law of capitalist accumulation/dialectics and logic

[Mario José de Lima <mjlima@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Devine / To relate each contradiction with its results is to return to
an explanation established in causality. In fact, it will lead to the
abandonment of the totality notion./ Mário


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From: "Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>
To: <PEN-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 2:31 PM
Subject: Re: absolute general law of capitalist accumulation/dialectics and
logic


Charles:>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.<

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

^^^^^^
CB: A result of which contradiction ?

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the class contradiction. Capitalist class domination encourages the
existence of unemployment, for example, to motivate people to do alienated
labor & to accept exploitation. But under certain circumstances, e.g., Nazi
Germany, there isn't much unemployment at all. Brute force replaces it.
jd