Wednesday, September 14, 2016

Dialectical Materialism and Technocracy

According to Dialectical Materialism, Techne consists in a modification of Matter.  However, Technology involves more than such a transformation.  It also consists in the harnessing of laws of Nature, e. g. the harnessing of laws governing fire, to warm a room.  Thus, insofar as Dialectical Materialism is, as Marxists posit, a law of Nature, it, too, is subject to being harnessed, e. g. inducing a Revolution.  But, Dialectical Materialism cannot account for the harnessing of a law like itself.  In other words, Marxist Technocracy, i. e. Socialism that is deliberately developed out of Capitalism, cannot be derived from Dialectical Materialism.

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