peaccenicked
3rd March 2002, 16:03
'All that is real is rational
All that is rational is real'
Trotsky quotes Hegel
This is a tautology when seperated from context.
The question is what does it really mean in context.
When applied to capitalism it means the basis of its reality is rational otherwise it would not exist.
It is rational as a phase in the development of the productive forces.
Socialism is rational, it is real because it is the next
phase in the development of the productive forces.
The phrase, all is real is rational, all is rational is real
defies formal logic. It breaks from it, to the development of a thing, not its formal identity.
It explains the movemnt between two phases of development. When the real lose its rationality a new reality appears.
Hegel's expressions are notoriously clumsy. That is a problem of expression but if one reads Hegel, What
I have explained is the meaning the reader would
deduce.
There is no fantasy here only perhaps in the idea that the expression can be immediately understood
(Edited by peaccenicked at 9:33 pm on Mar. 3, 2002)
All that is rational is real'
Trotsky quotes Hegel
This is a tautology when seperated from context.
The question is what does it really mean in context.
When applied to capitalism it means the basis of its reality is rational otherwise it would not exist.
It is rational as a phase in the development of the productive forces.
Socialism is rational, it is real because it is the next
phase in the development of the productive forces.
The phrase, all is real is rational, all is rational is real
defies formal logic. It breaks from it, to the development of a thing, not its formal identity.
It explains the movemnt between two phases of development. When the real lose its rationality a new reality appears.
Hegel's expressions are notoriously clumsy. That is a problem of expression but if one reads Hegel, What
I have explained is the meaning the reader would
deduce.
There is no fantasy here only perhaps in the idea that the expression can be immediately understood
(Edited by peaccenicked at 9:33 pm on Mar. 3, 2002)