Karl Marx, ‘‘‘Psychohistorian’’’.
Dear Reader,
The following is an
excerpt from that interview --
“The coherence of Marxism rests upon an attempted synthesis of materialism
and the Hegelian dialectic.
What exactly
is meant by such a synthesis has been a subject of great debate. A particularly problematic character in this
debate has been Lenin. Lenin’s philosophy, as expressed mainly in
Materialism
and Empirio-Criticism and his
Philosophical Notebooks, is
quite ambiguous and perhaps contradictory — he seems never quite able to
resolve the synthesis between the Hegelian dialectic and materialism.
At Lenin’s worst, his philosophy reduces to a
“reflection theory,” and what Axelrod called “naive realism.” At his best, Lenin wrestles with the attempt
to “apply dialectics to… the process and development of knowledge,” but the
issue was never really resolved in his writings.
Due to the eventual canonization of these
problematic texts, these ambiguities would lead to great disputes in Soviet
Marxism, and consequently in Marxism more generally, ranging widely from the
metaphysical to the positivistic.
Eventually, Soviet “dialectical materialism” would largely be reduced to
mechanistic materialism, with the “dialectic” a mere superficial stylistic
ornament, the ambiguity of which could be deployed for political purposes.
Partially in response, much of the academic
work of “Western Marxism” moved in the other direction, abdicating claims to
the natural sciences, eventually leading to what you call “proto-postmodern
relativism”...”
I posted the following comment to this interview, aiming to open
a dialogue with the interviewee:
“It might be interesting to consider, in regard to the topic
of this interview, the work of a project for the resurrection and renaissance
of Marxian theory. This project involves the derivation of a dialectical
progression of systems of ‘dialectical ideography’, i.e., of “mathematics of
dialectics”, via the immanent critique of the ideological vitiations prevailing
in modern mathematics.
This project sees
Karl Marx, certainly not as a “neuroscientist”, but as “the greatest
psychohistorian that Terran humanity has so far produced”, using the term
'“psychohistorian”' in a critical, Marxian re-visioning of its Asimovian
meaning.
Per this project, Marx’s theory
should be characterized as a ‘psychohistorical materialism’, and decidedly not
as any kind of pseudo-materialist actual Idealism of the Abstract Idea of
“Matter”.
Also per this project,
Leninism and its various offspring should be regarded as predictable
degenerations -- predictable via Marxian theory -- of Marxian theory itself
into an ideology in support of neo-Jacobinist putschist parties, and of the
totalitarian state-bureaucratic national ruling classes to which their
“successful”
coup d’etat lead, in the semi-periphery of core capitalism,
in the form of state-capitalist nation-states, as a new pathway for the
“primitive accumulation” of industrial capital.
This work is available for free download via
http://www.dialectics.info .”
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information regarding these
Seldonian insights, please see --
www.dialectics.info
For partially pictographical, ‘poster-ized’ visualizations of many of these Seldonian insights -- specimens of ‘dialectical art’ – as well as illustrated
books by the F.E.D. Press, see --
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¡ENJOY!
Regards,
Miguel Detonacciones,
Voting Member, Foundation Encyclopedia Dialectica [F.E.D.];
Elected Member, F.E.D. General Council;
Participant, F.E.D. Special Council for Public Liaison;
Officer, F.E.D. Office of Public Liaison.
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