Saturday, November 14, 2015

Will to Power, Dialectical Materialism, Socialism

The concept of a 'second nature' entails that of a transition from a 'first nature', one which, as the intentional acquisition of any new skills evinces, is deliberate.  Hence, underlying the two 'natures' is a more fundamental process, which Nietzsche calls Self-Overcoming.  But, Self-Overcoming is one manifestation of Will to Power.  So, insofar as Marxist Revolution consists in a transition to a second nature, as has been previously discussed, it can be attributed to the Will to Power, which is consistent with Trotsky's formulations, and avoids the difficulties entailed in deriving Socialism from Dialectical Materialism, e. g. the conflict between Necessity and Voluntary.

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