User:RD/9k/Against Avakianism (Q618)

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The resolution of social contradictions is a kind of inevitability; the action of necessity inside contradictions produces particular results under particular conditions unless stopped -> this sounds like a form of determinism to me. I am not sure why this book is against determinism and thinks just bringing up 'determinism' is an insult when necessity and determinism should functionally be the same thing.

absolute determinism / the philosophically unsound conception of 'inevitability' (Avakian) / Stalin's mechanical views (?) (Ajith) -> I think these two authors are just talking past each other, actually. they both seem to have very similar opinions about absolute determinism — inevitability exists in a form that isn't "mechanical" — except that one of them got upset because the other one misread Marx. putting that aside, their interpretations of current happenings are basically the same.