The essence of categorial, historical dialectic as seen by We of F.E.D.

The Key to Dialectic as We See It.

Dear Reader,

¿What is the key to dialectic -- the essence of categorial, historical dialectic -- as seen by We of F.E.D.?

It is that the second category, the «arithmos» of the second kind, is rooted in the first category/«arithmos».  Its units are sourced in an ‘intra-duality’, in a ‘self-duality’, in an immanent, internal opposition; in a ‘‘‘self-opposition’’’ -- in a potentiality or ‘‘‘energizing principle’’’ -- that is ineluctably inherent in, and present in, the first category, the «arithmos» of the units     /«monads» of the first kind, itself.

The second category is born out of, as a [self-]development of, the first category.

The second category is not inexplicably and arbitrarily posited from, as it were,  ‘‘‘outside the universe’’’ -- from some unexplained ‘externity’ -- in absolute externality with respect to the first category.

The first category and the second category -- once it irrupts -- thus form the beginning of -- not, ‘in gene-ral’, a genetic, chromosomal genealogy, but, ‘in gene-ral’ -- a ‘meta- genealogy’, an ontological lineage.  The first category is the «arché», the ultimate ancestor, in/of such a lineage of ontological kinds.

The first category, due to its own, ‘intra-duality’-driven development, beyond a certain threshold in that self-development, “begets” the units     /«monads» of the second category; disgorges and ‘ecloses’ them.  This is ‘‘‘«[auto-]diairesis»’’’. 

Then, later, the third category is born out of the interaction of some of the units of the first category with some of the units of the second category; by the resulting fusion, or ‘ontological hybridization’, of some of the units of each of the first two categories.

The units       /«monads» of the third category/«arithmos»/kind -- the «arithmos» of the units       /«monads» of the third kind -- are ontologically different from, and more complex than, the units of the first category, and even the units of the second category, because its units       /«monads» are combinations of the units     /«monads» of the second category/kind with the units     /«monads» of the first category/kind.  This is ‘‘‘«synagôgê»’’’.

And this universal ‘«arithmos»[-of-monads     ] dynamics’ has its own «arithm[os]-êtikê»; its own ‘‘‘arithmetic’’’ -- ‘‘‘«dialektikê aritmêtikê»’’’.

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Regards,

Miguel Detonacciones,

Member, Foundation Encyclopedia Dialectica [F.E.D.],

Officer, F.E.D. Office of Public Liaison

‘‘‘Dialectical’’’ -- E.D. Definition.

‘‘‘Dialectical’’’ -- E.D. Definition.

Dear Reader,

I want to share with you, in this blog-entry, the concise “Working Definition” of the term ‘‘‘Dialectical’’’ from our forthcoming Encyclopedia Dialectica [E.D.], volume 0, entitled ‘Encyclopedic Dictionary for a Unified Theory of Universal Dialectics’.

“Dialectical  =  an adjective that we use, throughout the volumes of this Encyclopedia, for describing processes which involve internal opposition -- ‘self-opposition’, ‘self-antithesis’, ‘intra-duality’, ‘self-duality’, internal ‘‘‘contradiction’’’, or ‘‘‘self-contradiction’’’ -- within the meanings and/or within the physical processes encompassed by a given initial category, followed, incrementally, by externalization of that internal opposition, into an external opposition among the units of the resulting two qualitatively distinct categories, typically as generated by an ‘auto-«aufheben»’ operation, followed, incrementally, by a reconciliation of that externalized internal-/self-opposition with the units of its source-category, in the form of the irruption of the units of a third category, typically through a mutual ‘allo-«aufheben»’ operation of the units of the externally-opposing/qualitatively-distinct categories-pair.  Higher ‘self-iterations’ of this kind of process may ensue, with either the second or the third category of the initial ‘self-iteration’ taking on a ‘‘‘self-similar’’’ ‘auto-«aufheben»’role to that of the given first category, but at a higher level/scale of operations/complexity/‘‘‘determinatenesses’’’.”      

Much of the work of Karl Seldon, and of his collaborators, including work by “yours truly”, is available for free-of-charge download via --

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Regards,

Miguel Detonacciones,

Member, Foundation Encyclopedia Dialectica [F.E.D.],

Officer, F.E.D. Office of Public Liaison

Seldon on State-Capitalism.

Alternative to State-Capitalism ^|

Seldon on State-Capitalism.

Dear Reader,

Karl Seldon recently shared with me, as well as with others of the Foundation, the following remarks, on the topic of state-capitalism [This transcript has been edited, for emphasis, by me, not, as has usually been the case in this blog, by the F.E.D. Special Council for the Encyclopedia].

He said -- 

“Stalinist[, Leninist, Maoist, etc.] [proto-]State-Capitalism -- i.e., the “pure” state-bureaucratic ruling class species of capitalism -- is not an alternative to “private” capitalism, or to “public”, joint-stock capitalism.” 

“That State-Capitalism is not a “supersession” of [“private”, and/or of “public”, joint-stock] capitalism.”

“That State-Capitalism is not a “successor system” to [“private”, and/or to “public”, joint-stock] capitalism.”

“That State-Capitalism is nothing more than a prevenient, ‘semi-peripheral’, disfigured prefigurement of the “lawful” ultimate destiny of core capitalism itself, and, indeed, of all of capitalism as a whole itself.”

“That “lawful” destiny of capitalism as a whole is, namely, police-state, totalitarian, ‘humanocidal’, Orwellian -- ‘‘‘hell on Earth’’’ -- ‘national super-corporation’ state-capitalisms, in contrived, ‘humanocidal’, global “permanent war” [cf. George Orwell] among themselves, and in global ‘permanent depression’ economically and psychologically, while the waning species of humanity lasts, and secretly ruled by a single, global, ultra-vicious, “eugenicist”, Malthusian ruling class, one which is a hybrid of elements of the concentrated “private” capital-owning national ruling classes of the old capitalist core, and/with formerly hostile elements of the ‘semi-peripheral’ national[ist] state-bureaucratic, oligarchic, plutocratic ruling classes, both, in their separation, belonging to the earlier phase of capitalism, as well as with surviving elements of feudal -- theocratic and crypto-landed-aristocratic -- plutocratic classes, that were only partially defeated, as ruling classes, by the rising industrial capitalist classes of the emergent capitalist core.”

“It is the ‘‘‘political-economic law of motion of modern society’’’ [cf. Karl Marx], in terms of the collective will of this descendence-phase ruling class, a will that is psychohistorically driven by the sociopathic logic of the “capital-relation” [Marx] as predominant “social relation of production” [Marx], that ‘‘‘ascendence-phase’’’ capitalism will, at length, descend and degenerate into the ‘‘‘New Dark Age’’’ of a global, ‘‘‘Orwellian’’’ system of police-state, totalitarian, [eu]genocidal-‘humanocidal’ state-capitalisms.  This means a global horror-regime of state-capitalist nation-states, and multi-nation-state blocs thereof [cf. George Orwell], in permanent mobilization for mass-murder, globally.”

“This degeneration will continue, and will worsen, up to and including the ‘self-extinction’ of the Terran human species -- unless or until the world working class acts successfully, especially electorally, to terminate this degeneration, and to launch a global, ‘‘‘grassroots’’’, ‘Political-ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY’, and, with it, a ‘Global Renaissance’ of humanity.” 

“Such a ‘Global Renaissance’ can only be based upon an accelerated re-advancement of the “social forces of production” [Marx], and upon the emergence, and constitutional, juridical adoption, of the new “social relation of production”, beyond the “capital-relation”, that is appropriate to that re-advancement of ‘the societal self-re-productive societal self-force of humanity’.”

“The course of the planetary historical development of ‘‘‘human Nature’’’ that this “law of motion” describes is driven -- causally, psychohistorically -- by the growing consolidation, centralization, and concentration of capital ownership wealth in ever fewer hands as the capital accumulation process progresses, coupled with the ‘technodepreciation’ ‘‘‘fatal flaw’’’ of the capitalist system -- the accelerating “technological obsolescence depreciation”, or “moral depreciation” [Marx], of accumulated, concentrated-ownership fixed capital plant and equipment.”

“The latter drives the historic shift in the ‘capital as self-expanding value # capital as self-contracting value’ ‘self-duality’, or ‘‘‘internal/self-contradiction’’’, of capital-value, from the dominance of the LHS [Left-Hand Side] of the forgoing contradiction[#]-relation expression, to the dominance of its RHS [Right-Hand Side], that also creates the transition from the global ‘‘‘ascendence phase’’’ to the global ‘‘‘descendence phase’’’ of the capitalist system, with its pivot circa 1900 C.E./B.U.E.”

Regards,

Miguel Detonacciones,

Member, F.E.D.,

Officer, F.E.D. Office of Public Liaison

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Seldon on Solidarity -- GLOBAL STRATEGIC HYPOTHESES.

Seldon on human solidarity -- GLOBAL STRATEGIC HYPOTHESES.

Dear Reader,

GLOBAL STRATEGIC HYPOTHESES.  Karl Seldon recently shared with me, and with others of the Foundation, the following remarks, on the topic of human solidarity [This transcript has been edited by me, not by the Special Council for the Encyclopedia].

He said -- 

“It is their [indicating the formerly dominant ruling class faction that we call ‘The Rocke-Nazis’, now under counter-attack by the Trump faction of the ruling class] plan to treat all of [the rest of] humankind the way that their Hitler regime [MD:  The regime of their erstwhile German ‘Servant-Dictatorship’, later, circa 1939, turned ‘Franken-Dictatorship’] treated the European Jews [in their planned ‘‘‘Globalization’’’ of their “FINAL SOLUTION” TO THE[IR] “JEWISH PROBLEM”, which we call their “FINAL SOLUTION” TO THE[IR] “HUMANITY PROBLEM” -- for more about this, see my most popular blog-entry here], if they can derail, or otherwise destroy, the “populist” movements that have recently irrupted throughout the nation-states of the global capitalist core, in open, albeit not always in coherent, opposition to their, pseudo-, “progressivism”.”

“Human solidarity, ‘“the moral fitness to survive”’, ‘the Dialectic of Egoism versus Altruism’ that we talk about, all, for the present, come down to this:  If each one is trying to sell everyone else “down the river”, for that one’s own supposed “individual gain”, then we are all going to go down the drain together, and every “one” is going to lose.”

“Foundation Encyclopedia Dialectica is grounded upon our commitment to human solidarity, to working for the good of one another -- for the good of all -- including for the good of ourselves, as we all confront the emerging, ‘Meta-Darwinian Planetary Fitness Test’ -- of the ‘‘‘fitness’’’ of the Terran human species.”

“This means that, first of all, each one of us -- I -- must cease allowing myself to be 'micro-Balkanized'; cease being ‘‘‘divided-and-conquered’’’, by the clever deceptions of the ruling-class-ruled mass media, etc.  It means that my, human, identity -- my self-identification with all of humanity -- must trump my identification with any and all of my personal [MD: and literally sub-human] sub-classifications -- religious, ethnic, political, etc.”

Regards,

Miguel Detonacciones,

Member, F.E.D.,

Officer, F.E.D. Office of Public Liaison

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Internet Dialogue on the Open Character of REAL Marxian Theory.

Internet Dialogue on the Open Character of REAL Marxian Theory.

Dear Readers,

I recently responded to blog-entry accessible via the following URL --

https://philipstanfield.com/2014/12/19/lenin-empirio-criticism-and-historical-materialism-part-fourteen/comment-page-1/#comment-16433

-- entitled:

“Lenin: Empirio-criticism and historical materialism – part fourteen”

-- and whose posting date was 19 December 2014.

I replied approximately as follows --

“This text calls to my mind the “dialectical theory of everything” developed by a group that is relentlessly carrying forward Marx’s, unfinished, work [by which I do NOT mean the state-bureaucratic ruling-class, dictatorial perversions of the Leninist, Trotskyist, Stalinist, Maoist, …, Castroist, IList, and Unist state-CAPITALIST ideologues, fraudsters, and mass murderers] in the five key domains which Marx and Engels were not able to bring to fruition before their deaths.


Those unfinished domains of Marxian theory and practice include:

(1) that of the detailed nature of the Marxian dialectic method;

(2) that of the dialectic of Nature, and of the Marxian immanent critique of the ideology that pervasively compromises the modern sciences, including, not just the economic and other social sciences, but the natural sciences and mathematics as well;

(3) clarification, including clear and ‘quanto-qualitative’ definition, of the central Marxian concept of “the social forces of production” — of ‘the human-societal self-force of human-societal self-re-production’ — in relation to a ‘Meta-Darwinian’ concept of human-species ‘‘‘fitness’’’ in terms of the rate of human-societal self-reproduction, as well as the interrelated clarification of the core Marxian concept of “the social relations of production”, e.g., of the “capital-relation”, of the “money-relation”, of the “commodity-relation”, etc. This ‘Meta-Darwinian’ theory recognizes the role of ‘the human Phenome’ as well as of the ‘the human Genome’ in increasing the ‘self-force’, and thereby the rate, of the ‘‘‘self-motion’’’ of human society in accelerated expanded social self-reproduction;

(4) that of the detailed nature of the liberatory, Political-ECONOMIC-DEMOCRATIC society — founded upon a new, unprecedented social relation of production — which is the “lawful” higher successor system to [State-]Capitalism;

(5) that of the detailed causation-dynamics of the ever-worsening catastrophic global economic depression-crises, wars, and genocides that advise us all of the growing need for us to transcend [state-]capitalism, by creating that successor system, of grass roots Political-ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY.

That group is Foundation Encyclopedia Dialectica [see http://www.dialectics.info ].”

Phil Stanfield, the author of the blog-entry under discussion, then kindly replied as follows --

“Hello detonacciones, thank you for your comment. I have always had a particular regard for Lenin’s Materialism and Empirio-criticism. You write of ‘unfinished domains of Marxian theory and practice’. A key purpose of my blog is to argue that Marx and his dialectical materialism represent the most advanced development of a current in thought that began with Plotinus – a current that, in my view, will always be open to further development, not least because of the continuing development of technology and science.”

 “I think it is essential that this continuum be recognised for its further development – hence, from standing on its head (Plotinus through to Hegel) to standing on its feet (Marx) to a more profound explication of the latter.”


-- to which I responded approximately as follows --

“Hello, philstanfield, and thank you for your reply.” 

“Yes, we too see that Marx's dialectical 'psychohistorical materialism', to remain true to itself, must remain open to further development.”

“It must be so because the development of science ["universal labor", Marx] and of technology, and of the human praxis surrounding and appriopriating that technology ["cooperative labor", Marx] -- and the development of the social forces of production in general -- gives rise to new 'human-social ontology', especially to new/modified 'social relations of production socio-ontology', and also to new kinds of use-values, and to new 'ideo-ontology' [some of which, especially within the capitalist integument, is also new IDEOLOGY]; new "memes" added to the human "memes-pool", i.e., to the 'human PHEnome', as well as to new kinds of means of production.”


That is where this dialogue stands to-date.

Regards,

Miguel