Reproduction, Synthesis, Materialism

To follow Marx's and Engel's own method of the observation of the concrete facts of human existence, the first "condition" of History, prior to, not, as they contend, simultaneous with, production within one life-span, is plainly sexual reproduction. For, without a succession of generations, History is mere biography. Now, one of the moments of the Dialectic is Synthesis, and if there is any moment in human History that plainly evinces the combination of two separate moments, it is the birth of a new member of the species. But, even in the interpretation of the relation between the two prior elements, i. e. a man and a woman, as a adversarial, the interaction that is productive is one of complementarity, not one of antithesis. Accordingly, in a rigorously developed concept of Dialectical Materialism, Hegelian Antithesis is supplanted by Complementarity. Likewise, the process in which a conflict of classes is resolved into Socialism does not exemplify Dialectical Materialism.