Tuesday, September 30, 2014

History, Dialectics, Totalization

Dialectical Reason is essential a principle of Totalization--the contradictions that are its motor are internal, and are expressions of insufficiency and partiality, e. g. Class Conflict.  On its basis, therefore, History is a process of Totalization.  However, any such concept of History ignores and fails to accommodate evidence of alternative processes, e. g. population growth expresses Diversification, which, formally, is the inverse of Totalization.  Furthermore, while subsequent to Marx himself, but at the disposal of his successors, are concepts of Humankind as exceeding Totalization, e. g. as preceding a higher evolutionary stage, or as becoming extra-terrestrial.  So, yoking Socialism to Dialectical Materialism arguably compromises the former, as History after Marx has tended to demonstrate.

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