[OPE] understandings of historical materialism

> And it has as any other major social phenomenon at the end an
> economic cause.
 
Hi Dogan:
 
To observe - as a historical matter - that social phenomena *in general* have an economic cause or causes is not at all the
same thing as claiming that all major social phenomena regardless
of time and space under capitalism have an economic cause. The latter. imo, IS a form of reductionism and a fallacy (the fallacy of division applied to history). It is important not to mistake "general" results (as, e.g. outlined by Marx in the 'Introduction' to the _Critique of Political Economy_) for universal results which hold true irrespective of their temporal and spatial context.
 
In solidarity, Jerry _______________________________________________
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Received on Thu Dec 31 06:37:15 2009