![]() Puppet masters change cultures to fit their narrative with black swan events. The foreordained consequence is social upheaval, the elimination of constitutional rights, depression, and tyranny. Currently, the problem is a virus, the response is panic, and the solutions are masks, lockdowns, social distancing, and vaccinations. This evil force instigates a problematic event, watches for society’s reaction, and formulates a solution (problem, response, resolution). The 19th-century German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel explained how an evil force could enslave humanity by entrapping us into a frenzied thought process leading to our destruction. And the resulting clash would create a new synthesis – that in turn would be challenged at some point.The following is from AND THEY WILL RIOT IN THE STREETS – A Nation Deceived is a Nation Enslaved. The ruling class as the thesis would be confronted by a highly disgruntled antithesis in the form of the exploited class. When the social structure of a society could no longer grow the “productive forces”, it was time to break with that society. Marx explained how feudalism or capitalism could initially take humanity forward but would then be constrained by their own inner contradictions. So, in dialectical thinking you have the idea that quantity can transform in to quality (I’ll explain this more in my blog posts). He took key dialectical concepts and applied them in new ways. Sure there were ideas – but these were reflections of material realities. Instead, Marx saw the dialectics in human history as a struggle between different social classes. So how did Marx approach dialectics? His decisive move was to reject the Hegelian method that viewed dialectical progress as a battle of ideas. They believe that opposing ideas can exist at the same time and the clash of these ideas creates progress. But dialecticians embrace contradiction with enthusiasm. Traditionally, logicians didn’t much like contradiction. Every synthesis contains within it the seeds of its own destruction as it becomes a thesis to be overthrown by an antithesis and succeeded by a new, higher synthesis. What was once viewed positively becomes a negative. Hegel viewed this entirely as a battle of ideas raging through human history as a quest for ultimate truth. But then the synthesis would become a new thesis to be overthrown as it were. Against it would be an opposing “antithesis”. What he meant by this was that a “thesis” would be put forward. The German philosopher Hegel, who exercised a huge influence on the young Marx, came up with the idea of successive dialectic triads. Theories in science are the basis for practical outcomes but eventually give way to superior theories that take human knowledge to a new and higher level. It can be argued that scientists adopt a dialectical method when they posit a new theory and invite their peers to review it – shooting it down if necessary. Poor Socrates, for example, was forced to drink deadly poison for the crime of corrupting the youth. This was hugely liberating if sometimes viewed as dangerous by those in authority. Through reasoned argument, if sometimes heated, they would hope to arrive at something approaching the truth. Their method of discourse – over an agreeable goblet of wine – was to come at each other with differing opinions. What made the Greeks so unique compared to other civilisations was their willingness to define the world in terms of natural phenomenon as opposed to the whims of deities. We should start by popping back to ancient Greece and all those philosophers trying to uncover underlying truths about the world. This theory is a key building block of Marxism explaining Marx’s attitude to history, the nature of human existence and why socialism through revolution is (almost) inevitable – or at least necessary. Let me try and unlock the meaning of Dialectical Materialism in one page.
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