Hegel, Economics and Capital

[trivas7]

If science were to unify humanity, Hegel thought, it itself had to be united into a system. The movement which linked science into a unified enterprise, Hegel called ‘dialectic’. So argues Cyril Smith in an essay from History, Economic History and the Future of Marxism:

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/smith-cyril/works/articles/cyril.htm

[Rosa Lichtenstein]

Smith, alas, makes all the usual mistakes.

But, why did you not post any of the following links to some of Smith's other articles, which reveal from where Hegel lifted all his mystical ideas, many of which Engels pinched and superimposed on Marxism?

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/smith-cyril/works/articles/interim.htm

http://marx.org/reference/archive/smith-cyril/works/articles/magic.htm

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/smith-cyril/works/alteration/index.htm

Or, perhaps more directly to the book that Smith himself recommends on this topic:

http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/en/magee.htm

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=NFIOpySKxw0C&dq=Hegel+and+the+Hermetic+Tradition&pg=PP1&ots=KaISyPx41f&sig=Sjoruk0oio9mmF_3kr0l4PHkHOA&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result

[trivas7]

Smith, alas, makes all the usual mistakes.

But re Capital he is agreeing with you. I think it's a fair and fascinating reading of both Hegel and Marx.

In one of the links (great links, BTW) Smith writes: "Marx’s work begins and ends with the ‘critique of Hegel’s dialectic and philosophy as a whole’. But this process of demystification is NOT a matter of rejection. All this needs to be traced out in detail, but here all that we can do is draw attention to three well-known texts. [...] Marx takes the side of the heretics and Hermetics, of course. Like them, he knows that humanity is collectively self-creating. The heretical-Hermetic-Hegelian tradition grasped human creative activity only encased in a divine package. Marx, focussing attention on material labour, could allow God to fade away into history, and open the path to universal human emancipation, the unity of subjectivity and objectively free social practice."

[Rosa Lichtenstein]

Trivas:


But re Capital he is agreeing with you.

I beg to differ.