Dear Readers,
I have pasted-in, below, an opening exchange within a new
web-dialogue in which I am participating, at --
It involves, from me, a somewhat succinct definition of
‘‘‘dialectic’’’.
Enjoy!
Regards,
Miguel
Q: [Define] “Dialectical Materialism”.
R: First of all, to understand what “dialectical
materialism” means, one needs to understand what “dialectical” means, and,
thus, what “dialectic” is.
A dialectic is a categorial
progression in which a simple[r] starting category breaks out into an
opposition between itself and its more complex, supplementary first ‘contra-category’,
born from within that starting category.
Then a third category, a ‘first uni-category’, emerges from the “hybridization”
of the first two categories. And so
on.
Such a categorial progression
can describe a present scale of existences, such as Marx’s ‘Commodities +
Monies + Monies-Mediated-CIRCULATIONs-of-Commodities’... in Capital, or an
historical progression of existences such as, in the ‘‘‘Dialectic of Nature’’’,
‘ “non-composite” “quanta” [e.g., quarks] + “composite” “quanta” [e.g.,
protons] + atoms [hybrids of protons, neutrons, and electrons] ... ’ .
For more regarding Marxian
dialectics, see www.dialectics.info
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