[Marxism] Hegel on Mathematics (re: Badiou)

[David Picón Álvarez]

From: "Jim Farmelant" <farmelantj at juno.com>
> Bertrand Russell famously said that he had been
> inclined towards a Hegelian idealism until
> he bothered to read what Hegel wrote
> about mathematics and decided that
> Hegel wrote nothing but nonsense about that
> subject and so Russell abandoned Hegelianism.

To be fair, one could get a similar impression from reading the mathematical 
manuscripts. Or at least their review.

Take this sentence:

As Marx remarks (p. 3): 'First making the differentiation and then removing 
it therefore leads literally to nothing. The whole difficulty in 
understanding
the differential operation (as in the negation of the negation generally) 
lies precisely in seeing how it differs from such a simple procedure and 
therefore
leads to real results.'

I'm reasonably competent when it comes to differentiation and for the life 
of me I have no idea what the fuck that's supposed to mean.

--David.