Wat da fuq is dialectical materialism

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Weka: May 5, 2019; That child totally had it coming. Nobody should be able to be out at dusk except cars.

mazzi Chart Czar posted:

Excuse this attempt: https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/european-thought-and-culture-in-the-19th-century

Marx studied Hegel. So you have to go back to Hegel.

Hegel was trying to understand history, but all of it. (Before French Revolution people just had personal history, or national history)

Hegel said that things go through a process:
First you have an idea. Then you have the anti-idea.

Then the idea and anti Idea combine into a thing called the synthesis.

A historical example is, having the various enlightenment ideas and events, then countered by the various Romantics thoughts and ideas.
Then they are combined and people move toward understanding a meaning, or sort of ending/goal.

There is this idea that history is moving toward something. And has a meaning. Hegel a label used is "the spirit."
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Marx is a strict materialist, so if you ask to explain how history happened, he would say, they are fights over resources, and trying to keep your body alive.

So you take Hegel's frame work of stuff happening. The end goal is Communism, the utopia end goal.
Everything has a meaning or reason and the end of it is communism.

No I'm pretty sure it's about corn.

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docbeard: Jul 19, 2011

It's a philosophy for toddlers (people who can't count higher than 2, and who believe that only the things right in front of their face that they can see are real)

# ? Feb 6, 2023 16:09

mila kunis: Jun 10, 2011

the idea is that different interest groups (or classes) and institutions in society want different things and try to pull the way things are done (law, economy, politics) in different ways (some of which may be antagonistic and mutually contradictory)

the end result (how things actually work) is due to the various concessions, compromises and decisions made based on which institutions and classes hold how much power. this can often be a mess of inconsistencies and contradictions, as anyone who observes the american political system can instantly get

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Trabisnikof: Dec 24, 2005

its something thats a poor conductor of electricity op

# ? Feb 6, 2023 18:27

tristeham: Jul 31, 2022

docbeard posted:

It's a philosophy for toddlers (people who can't count higher than 2, and who believe that only the things right in front of their face that they can see are real)

wut

# ? Feb 6, 2023 22:02