[OPE-L:8116] Re: Re: philosophy and political economy

From: clyder@gn.apc.org
Date: Wed Dec 04 2002 - 11:19:28 EST


Quoting Andrew Brown <Andrew@lubs.leeds.ac.uk>:

> 
> I don't think that energy and matter are separate. Matter is 
> inherently in motion; it doesn't need an external impulse to 
> 'energise' it (i.e. to generate movement). 

They are also, as Einstein showed, equivalent.

> I wish I wasn't so very 
> ignorant about the science of self-organising systems and the like. 
> Probably, something like the scientific developments to which you 
> refer do indeed resonate with materialist dialectics.
> 

I vaguely recall that Progress Publishers produced books on materialist
dialectics in the 70s and 80s discussing the relationship between 
self organisation, entropy and dialectics, but I no longer have
access to these to give a more precise reference.

> Many thanks,
> 
> Andy 
> 
> 
> 
> > 
> > Yours, Rakesh
> > 
> > 
> 
> 


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