Dialectics, Revolution, Motivation

A Dialectical principle is often conceived as a totalizing process, with Synthesis as, if not its telos, its privileged moment. But, Synthesis is equivalent in the Logic to a Negation of a Negation, thereby indicating that it is fundamentally a negating process, an interpretation implicit in Hegel's classification of it as "negative reason", as well as, more recently, explicit in the systems of Sartre and Adorno. Now, the uncertainty bears upon the application of Dialectical Materialism to the Revolutionary process, and, in particular, to the motivation of a member of the Proletariat to initiate action--whether it as a means to Socialist totalization of Capitalist antagonisms, or is an end-in-itself, with Socialism only a temporary stage of development, itself subject to eventual negation. In other words, it is uncertain in Marxism whether what motivates a worker to revolt is the prospect of Socialist solidarity, or is change for its own sake. In any case, the motivation for change cannot be merely to lessen suffering or improve working conditions, each of which expresses a presumably, according to Marx-Engels, superseded Egoist principle.