Anyone new to Marxism soon encounters 'dialectics', a strange mixture of Mickey Mouse Science, Hermetic Philosophy and Stone Age Logic.
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Important Notice -- because I have had to change my IP, I have moved my site to a new address. The links below still work (how long that will be the case I do not know), but they connect to older versions of my work (since I no longer have access to my old site editor).
The latest versions can now be found here:
I will post individual links to each of my essays located at the new site over the next few weeks.
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This site is aimed at Marxists who, like me, want to rid our movement of this mystical, pre-scientific theory.
It is important to note, however, that nothing I say here, or anywhere else for that matter, is aimed at undermining Historical Materialism, a scientific theory I fully accept.
On the contrary, my aim is to make our movement more successful by helping rid it of a theory that has presided over 130 years of the almost total failure of Dialectical Marxism.
[Note the use of the word 'Dialectical' before 'Marxism' here; we haven't witnessed much of the uncontaminated version yet.]
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Begin here:- Introduction
A concise overview of my ideas can be found here:
Quick Links:
Essay One: Why I Began This Project
Essay Two: Dialectics -- Imposed On Reality, Not Read From It
Essay Three, Part One: Abstract Ideas 1 -- The Heart Of The Beast
Essay Three, Part Two: Abstract Ideas 2 -- Or, 'Science' On The Cheap
Essay Four: Formal Logic Can Handle Change
Essay Five: Motion Is Not Contradictory
Essay Six: Trotsky And The 'Law' Of Identity
Essay Seven: Engels's Three 'Laws'
Essay Eight, Part One: Change Through 'Internal Contradiction' -- Refuted
Essay Eight, Part Two: Why Opposing Forces Cannot Be 'Contradictions'
Esay Eight Part Three: What Are 'Dialectical Contradictions'?
Essay Nine, Part One: Why Workers Ignore 'Materialist Dialectics'
Essay Nine, Part Two: The Serious Damage Dialectics Has Done To Marxism
Essay Ten, Part One: Practice Refutes Dialectics
Essay Eleven, Part One: The 'Totality' -- WTF Is It?
Essay Eleven, Part Two: Dialectical Wholism -- Full Of Holes
Essay Twelve, Part One: Dialectical Materialism And Metaphysics -- Or, Lenin Thinks the Unthinkable
Essay Thirteen, Part One: Materialism And Empirio-Criticism -- Demolished
Essay Thirteen, Part Three: 'Mind', Language And 'Cognition' -- Or, Voloshinov Debunked
Many of my Essays have not been published yet; here is an outline of one of them:
Summary of Essay Fourteen: Hegel, Hermeticism And 'Materialist Dialectics'
Summaries of my published Essays can be found here.