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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