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  hardie karges 8:25 am on June 21, 2017 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: capitalist, communism ( 21 ), DEMOCRACY ( 10 ), dialectic ( 9 ), ecology ( 2 ), environmentalism ( 2 ), global village, global warming ( 14 ), Hegel, Marx ( 3 ), small planet, TERRORISM ( 3 ), totalitarian   

  #Dialectic Burrito Deluxe: #Marx or #Hegel, Tortilla or Bagel… 

  Marx and Hegel are almost (almost!) equally famous for their dialogues and dialectics, with themselves and others, materialism and idealism respectively, thesis antithesis synthesis, history somehow some way marching forward zig-zag drunkenly, reconciling opposites into higher syntheses supposedly, like a ball rolling downhill, picking up speed, bouncing from side to side, before finally choosing a middle course out of entropy as much as any conscious decision-making progress…

  And so we do just that, apparently, nomadic hunter-gatherers until we had the ways and means to settle down with plants and animals, sedentary farmer-herders until we had the ways and means to build elaborate cities with specialized skills, accomplished artisans-craftsmen until we had the ways and means to sell beyond our local ‘hood, market-based buyers-sellers until we had the ways and means to go long distances, peripatetic merchant-travelers until we had the ways and means to mass-produce anywhere any time… (More …)

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  hardie karges 7:22 am on June 21, 2016 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Hegel, ISIL ( 8 ), ISLAM ( 63 ), Marx ( 3 ), USSR ( 4 )   

  The Dark Side Dialectic of Religion, Culture and Politics… 

  

  ISIL wages war in the Mideast

  We cringe with horror at the antics of ISIL, but they’re very similar to those employed by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR aka ‘Russia’) before them, that previous political entity with objectives almost exactly the opposite. The fact that the USSR crashed almost simultaneously with the rise of fundamentalist Islam is almost too coincidental to be ignored—almost.

  It’s almost like there IS indeed a dialectic of history—thesis, antithesis, synthesis—as theorized by Hegel, regardless of whether it ultimately has anything to do with the means of production, as theorized by Marx. In this scenario, something at least has to be offered up as an alternative to the dominant capitalist-consumerist system, or whatever system happens to be on top at any given time.

  In this view, therefore, there is no one specific dialectic going on at any one given time, but more of a random one—something anything. Sounds a lot like evolution, doesn’t it? Yes, it does, but more like a cultural evolution, a dialectic of ideas, as theorized by Hegel, in which we seem to be subconsciously struggling toward something else–always. Or is it a function of language itself? (More …)