Saturday, December 12, 2015

Species-Being, Species-Consciousness, Dialectical Materialism

Insofar as Marxist Socialism is a whole, what distinguishes it from the sum of its parts is what can be called universal Species-Consciousness, in which awareness of Species-Being, a concept that Marx borrows from Feuerbach, becomes explicit in each member.  Now, prior to the achievement of Species-Consciousness, Species-Being is obscured because of alienation from it that reaches an extreme in Capitalism, which codifies Social Atomism.  But, presupposed in that analysis is a non-alienated precondition, the loss of which requires an explanation that seems to be lacking, and which seems beyond the resources of Dialectics, which is a process of progressive totalization.  So, the relations between Species-Being, Dialectical Materialism,and Species-Consciousness in Marxism are unclear.

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