- 11 Feb 2009 18:05
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I decided to dedicate the first thread on this forum to the article Contradiction and Overdetermination by Louis Althusser. In it, Althusser discusses the concept of overdetermination(the accumulation and exacerbation of multiple contradictions in a process) in historical materialism, and uses the Russian Revolution as an example of this. He then uses this concept to criticize the Hegelian dialectic and show that the Marxist dialectic isn't just a simple "extraction" or "inversion" of it. He also goes into some detail about social superstructures and their relation to their infrastructure.
I think this is a great idea for a subforum.
I think this is a great idea for a subforum.