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To: Ilaine who wrote (60585)	12/11/2002 1:08:24 AM
From: D. Long	Respond to of 281500

Marx borrowed the idea of the Dialectic from Hegel. Hegel applied it to ideas, whereas Marx applied it to economics. You're right that dialectic means argumentation, that's just what the Dialectic (capitalized) is, of sorts. A syllogism which starts with a premise, offers a second, contradictory premise, and comes to a conclusion based on the synthesis of the contradictory premises. Marx used it to explain the dynamism of social change instead of ideas. The clash of classes (opposing theses) produces a synthesis, a new social reality, which itself is a new thesis with its own antithesis. Marx asserted that society thus moves from lower forms of social organization to feudalism to capitalism and inevitably, communism. Wow, cleared alot of cobwebs with that one. :) Derek