Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Socialism, Base, Dialectical Materialism

The cardinal characteristic of Socialism--the collectivization of property--can be expressed as 'Our', and Our presupposes We.  Thus, the Base of Socialism is We.  Now, there is nothing Philosophically arcane about We, a familiar feature of everyday experience.  But, what distinguishes the Socialist version is its potential universality.  So, since the loci of the everyday instances are finite groups, e. g. family, nation, club, class, etc., the Socialist We cannot be derived from them alone via an historical process.  Rather, since the Universe entailed in the concept is that of the race, that We must presuppose the species as its ground, and as the origin of the process that leads to it.  Thus, the process is one of what is implicit becoming explicit.  But, that is not a Dialectical pattern.  Thus, Dialectical Materialism is inadequate as the Base of Socialism.

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