Capitalism's Fatal Flaw, and the Way Forward: Marx’s “Single Science”: ‘Dialectical Science’ and Universal Science. Part 10.: Karl Seldon on Karl Marx Series.

Marx’s “Single Science”:

‘Dialectical Science’

and

Universal Science.

Part 10.:

Karl Seldon on Karl Marx Series.

GLOBAL STRATEGIC HYPOTHESES.

Dear Reader,

It is my pleasure, and my honor, as an elected member of the Foundation Encyclopedia Dialectica [F.E.D.] General Council, and as a voting member of F.E.D., to share, with you, from time to time, as they are approved for public release by the F.E.D. General Council, Karl Seldon’s commentaries on the world-historic breakthrough work of Karl Marx – work not to be confused with the world-historic catastrophe of Leninism’s bait-and-switch fraud: state-capitalist, police-state hell hole dictatorships.

This 10th text in this by now long-running series is posted herewith, together with supporting text-images and diagrams [Some E.D. standard edits have been applied, in the version presented below, by the editors of the F.E.D. Special Council for the Encyclopedia, to the direct transcript of our co-founder’s discourse].

Seldon –

“In The German Ideology, written jointly, by Marx and Engels, during 1845 and 1846, with Europe on the verge of the 1848, continent-wide anti-monarchist revolutions, on its second page, the start of its section entitled “1. Ideology in General, German Ideology in Particular”, reads as follows –

“We know only a single science, the science of history. One can look at history from two sides and divide it into the history of [K.S.: ‘exo-human’ ]nature and the history of humanity[, K.S.: I.e., of human Nature]. The two sides are, however, inseparable; the history of nature and the history of humanity are dependent on each other so long as humans exist. The history of [K.S.: ‘exo-human’ ]nature, so-called natural science, does not concern us here; but we will have to examine the history of humanity, since almost the whole of ideology amounts either to a distorted interpretation of this history, or to a complete abstraction from it. Ideology is itself only one of the [K.S.: ‘‘‘psychohistorical’’’] aspects of this history.”*

– but is not the first invocation of “the single science” in the Marxian legacy.”

“In Marx’s writings of 1844, the year before he started working with Engels on The German Ideology, in the private texts later, by others, titled “The Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts”, Marx had already stated the following –

“[K.S.: human ]History itself is a real part of natural history, of the development of [K.S.: pre-human ]nature into humanity. Natural science will one day incorporate the science of human Nature, just as the science of human Nature will one day incorporate natural science [K.S.: I.e., the science of ‘exo-human Nature’]; there will be a single science.”**

– although further elaboration of this astounding insight into a future “single science” had to await later years in the development of Marxian Theory, including via Engels’ attempts, in the unfinished manuscripts posthumously published under the title “Dialectics of Nature” – to extend that theory to encompass exo-human Nature, albeit formulated at a time before natural science had penetrated exo-human Nature deeply enough to discern the universal, «aufheben» architectonic of our cosmos.”

“Moden science does not notice – at least not officially – does not cognize, and does not leverage, theoretically, or mathematically, the Grand Universal Pattern and Unity of Cosmological Nature, a Pattern and a Unity which its own, protracted observations have, gradually and implicitly, disclosed.”

“And the Dialectical Science, implicit in Marxian Theory, is also, and thereby – by virtue of its very ‘dialecticality’ – a Unified and Universal Science.”

“It breaks with the tacit and ‘Kantianoid’ expectation, detected in some topoi of the contemporary “scientific community”, of a virtual antinomy between “natural science” and “social science”.”

“This is scene in the, oft-detected, assumptions that “social science” will need a radically distinct and separate mathematics, to adequately model human-social “processes and phenomena”, from the mathematics that is adequate for “natural science” – adequate to model the “processes and phenomena” addressed by the “physical”, “hard” sciences.”

“The mathematics of dialectical categorial progressions, that F.E.D. has developed, applies equally to modeling the earlier, pre-human-social realities and history of universal Nature as known to us today, and to modeling the later, human-social realities and history of the human portion of Nature, as known to us today.”

“Of course, that mathematics, of explicit dialectical categorial progressions, in its first ‘ideo-formation’ – its first axioms-systems ‘ideo-ontological’ category – is “purely”-qualitative, “purely” ontological-categorial, via a “purely”-qualitative axiomatic system of “non-standard” arithmetic/-‘contra-Boolean’ algebra.”

“We have yet to publish proofs that the later, ‘qualo-quant-itative’ axioms-systems of arithmetic/algebra in that first system’s own further dialectical categorial progression, are scientifically effective at modeling both pre-human-social and human-social reaches of universal nature.

“Thus, the Foundation’s work is only just getting started.”

*[Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, The German Ideology, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1968, p. 28. K.S.: To update this text to the contemporary context, in which a wider partial liberation of women – in a cause which Marx championed, from his “Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts” of 1844, onward – has impacted prevailing language, we have changed occurrences of the word “men” to the word “humans”, or to the word “humanity”.].

**[Karl Marx, Early Writings, McGraw-Hill, NY, USA, 1964, p. 164. K.S.: as in the immediately-previous citation, and for the same reasons, we have changed occurrences of the word “man” to the word “humanity”, or to the phrase “human Nature”.].

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