‘The Dialectic of Egoism and Altruism’: Revisited.

‘The Dialectic of Egoism and Altruism’: Revisited.

Dear Reader,

This morning our internet scanners turned up a new republication -- together with an audio-streaming reading of excerpts from -- a book that Karl Seldon wrote, with collaborators, in his twenties, nearly 50 years ago --

https://immediatism.com/podcast/97-the-right-to-be-greedy-theses-on-the-practical-necessity-of-demanding-everything-by-for-ourselves-council-for-generalized-self-management/

-- and it’s interesting to see how this text has taken on a cultural life of its own, without Seldon and/or his co-authors lifting a finger to get it re-published and re-published again over the ~ 50 years since its first debut.

The book even has its own Wikipedia article --

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Right_to_Be_Greedy

-- and Wikiquote pages --

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Right_to_Be_Greedy

-- and has roots in the second surviving letter that Engels ever wrote to Marx --

http://adventures-in-dialectics.org/Adventures-In-Dialectics/TheDialecticOfCommunistEgoism_EngelsLetterToMarx/TheDialecticOfCommunistEgoism_EngelsLetterToMarx.pdf

-- although Seldon and company didn’t know about that letter at the time that they wrote the text.


Happy Anti-Colonial Independence Day!

Miguel Detonacciones,

Voting Member, Foundation Encyclopedia Dialectica [F.E.D.],

Participant, F.E.D. Special Council for Public Liaison,

Officer, F.E.D. Office of Public Liaison.

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For more information regarding these Seldonian insights, please see --

www.dialectics.info

For partially pictographical, ‘poster-ized’ visualizations of many of these Seldonian insights -- specimens of ‘dialectical art’ -- see:

https://www.etsy.com/shop/DialecticsMATH