Marxian ‘Psychohistorical Materialism’.
-- Part 5: Seldon’s Worldview Series.
Dear Reader,
It
is my pleasure,
and my honor, as an elected member
of the Foundation Encyclopedia
Dialectica [F.E.D.] General Council, and as a voting member of F.E.D., to share, with you, from time to time, as they are approved for public release, by the F.E.D. General Council, key excerpts from the internal writings, and from the internal sayings, of our co-founder,
Karl Seldon.
The fifth release in
this new such
series is posted below
[Some E.D.
standard edits have been applied, in the version presented below, by the editors of
the F.E.D. Special Council for the Encyclopedia,
to the direct transcript of our co-founder’s
discourse].
In this 5th installment, Seldon contrasts requirements for the theorization
of ‘sub-/pre-psychic’ “machines” versus for the theorization of ‘‘‘machines’’’
that are characterized and permeated by ‘psyche-bearing’, or ‘psyche-ic’
components.
Seldon –
“A “machine” that is devoid of psyches is a profoundly different “mechanism”
from a ‘‘‘machine’’’ that is full of psyches, made up out of constituents that
include myriads of psyches, i.e., a human society.”
“Marx’s
dialectical, immanent critique of the capitalist-ideology-compromised science
of classical political economy treats of such a ‘psyche-ic’ “organism” or “organic
system”, and by it he sought to ‘‘‘save the science’’’, to rescue the seeds of
a science of modern human society from the rotting husk of capitalist ideology.”
“Thus, the
theory of modern humanity that emerges as the positive fruition of Marx’s
“immanent critique/dialectical, «aufheben» negation of the theory/ideology
of classical political economy” is, of necessity, not a “mechanical
materialism”; not an ideology of the disguised idealism that grows
from any reductionist idea of [undifferentiated] “Matter”, but a ‘socio-politico-economic-psycho-historical
materialism’, or a ‘psychohistorical materialism’ for short.”
“The section
of ‘‘‘historical materialism’’’ that theorizes human society and human social
history must be a ‘psychohistorical materialism’.”
“Nonetheless,
the human praxis of “the capital-relation” [Marx]; of the dominating ‘‘‘social
relation of social reproduction’’’ shaping modern capitalist
society – wage-labor-based, sold labor-power-based, ‘alienation=sale-of-labor-power-based
society -- has many profoundly “mechanical” and ‘social-unconscious’,
apparently ‘psyche-excluding’ aspects, despite the ‘psyche-bearing’ character
of its major agents and conductors: e.g., we.”
“Indeed,
the key burden of Marx’s critique of capitalist political-economics was to
bring these social-unconscious features to consciousness,
for his readers.”
“But it
should also be made clear that ‘‘‘historical materialism’’’
must encompass more than ‘psychohistorical materialism’.”
“Because “Nature”
too has a history, is historical, historical through and through – although
this was not as clear in Hegel’s time, or in Marx’s and
Engels’s day -- or even for Einstein, before Hubble -- as it is for us today.”
“Nature IS
‘‘‘Natural History’’’, which is the totality of the reality
known to modern science, albeit that this known
reality has continued to expand during human history.”
“Nature,
Nature’s history, includes human Nature, the known-to-science history of the Terran
human species. But Nature also includes –
and massively so -- ‘pre-human Nature’, as
well as contemporary ‘exo-human Nature, both of them ‘pre-psyche-ic’
and ‘sub-psyche-ic’, as far as we know.”
“Thus, ‘‘‘historical
materialism’’’ must include the history of Nature,
as the totality – ‘Natural History as Total History’,
as Totality – and it therefore also must include the critique of the capitalist
ideology permeating and compromising the capitalist-epoch “natural sciences”, and
their mathematics.”
“Marx’s dialectical,
immanent critique of the capitalist-epoch, capitalist-ideology-vitiated “science”
of classical political was only the beginning of his, and of our, ideology-curing
progress toward the “single science” that Marx and Engels foresaw, and that
Marx and Engels sought.”
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Regards,
Miguel Detonacciones,
Voting Member, Foundation Encyclopedia Dialectica [F.E.D.];
Elected Member, F.E.D. General Council;
Participant, F.E.D. Special Council for Public Liaison;
Officer, F.E.D. Office of Public Liaison.
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