‘The Dialectic of Egoism and Altruism’: Revisited.

‘The Dialectic of Egoism and Altruism’:  Revisited.

Dear Reader,

This morning our internet scanners turned up a new republication -- together with an audio-streaming reading of excerpts from -- a book that Karl Seldon wrote, with collaborators, in his twenties, nearly 50 years ago --

https://immediatism.com/podcast/97-the-right-to-be-greedy-theses-on-the-practical-necessity-of-demanding-everything-by-for-ourselves-council-for-generalized-self-management/

-- and it’s interesting to see how this text has taken on a cultural life of its own, without Seldon and/or his co-authors lifting a finger to get it re-published and re-published again over the ~ 50 years since its first debut.

The book even has its own Wikipedia article --

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Right_to_Be_Greedy

-- and Wikiquote pages --

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Right_to_Be_Greedy

-- and has roots in the second surviving letter that Engels ever wrote to Marx --

http://adventures-in-dialectics.org/Adventures-In-Dialectics/TheDialecticOfCommunistEgoism_EngelsLetterToMarx/TheDialecticOfCommunistEgoism_EngelsLetterToMarx.pdf

-- although Seldon and company didn’t know about that letter at the time that they wrote the text.


Happy Anti-Colonial Independence Day!

Miguel Detonacciones,

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

Participant, F.E.D. Special Council for Public Liaison,

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

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SOLUTION –

‘Equitist Political-ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY’; 

 

BOOK:

MARX'S MISSING BLUEPRINTS

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Posted to dialectics.info --‘Descendence Phase’ Capitalism, Part I.

Just Posted to dialectics.info --‘Descendence Phase’ Capitalism, Part I.

Dear Reader,

An updated version of Part I. of my three part series, for F.E.D., on the present, ‘Descendence Phase’ of the [State-]Capitalist System, has just been posted to the www.dialectics.info web site.

Please post your comments on that article below!

For more 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’ -- see:

https://www.etsy.com/shop/DialecticsMATH

¡ENJOY!

Regards,

Miguel Detonacciones,

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

Participant, F.E.D. Special Council for Public Liaison,

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

SOLUTION –

 

‘Equitist Political-ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY’; 

 

BOOK:

MARX’S MISSING BLUEPRINTS

Free of Charge Download of Book PDF --

http://www.dialectics.info/dialectics/Applications.html

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'DescendEnce Phase’ Capitalism, Part I. of III.: Socio-Economic Aspects.

‘Descendence Phase’ Capitalism, Part I. of  III.:  Socio-Economic Aspects.

Dear Reader,

The twelve images posted below constitute Part I. of my forthcoming three part series, for F.E.D., on the present, ‘Descendence Phase’ of the [State-]Capitalist System.

For more 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’ -- see:

https://www.etsy.com/shop/DialecticsMATH

¡ENJOY!

Regards,

Miguel Detonacciones,

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

Participant, F.E.D. Special Council for Public Liaison,

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

SOLUTION –

 

‘Equitist Political-ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY’; 

 

BOOK:

MARX’S MISSING BLUEPRINTS

Free of Charge Download of Book PDF --

http://www.dialectics.info/dialectics/Applications.html

http://www.dialectics.info/dialectics/Applications_files/Edition%201.,%20DPCAIT_,_Part_1_,_%27THE_MISSING_BLUEPRINTS%27_,_begun_22JUL2022_Last_Updated_08AUG2023.pdf

 

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Healthy Creativity.

Healthy Creativity.

Dear Reader,

It is my pleasure, and my honor, as an officer of the Foundation Encyclopedia Dialectica [F.E.D.] Office of Public Liaison, 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, key excerpts from the internal writings, and from the internal sayings, of our co-founder, Karl Seldon.

This latest release is posted below [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].

In this text, Seldon describes the nature of healthy human creativity, in his view, and the ways in which that kind of creativity is thwarted by the prevailing, capital-relation-compromised human phenome.

Seldon --

“Our contemporary society harnesses human creativity for expanded surplus-value production -- for profit; for monetary reward.”

“That form of society pushes for profit, status, fame, and power to become the sole motives for human creativity.”

“But these motives are not healthy motives for human creativity.  Such motives tend to overwhelm the ‘‘‘for-itself’’’, for universal benefit, use-value and gift-value motives for creativity that have deep historical roots in the human genome, as well as in ‘the human phenome’, imposing, in their place, taints of an ulterior and mercenary character.”

“Such motives lead to an unhealthy creativity, and even to an other-destructive and self-destructive way of life.”

“Thus, healthy creativity is itself a creative discovery on the part of a creative individual in our society.”

“The way of life of healthy creativity is a trans-cultural discovery with respect to our contemporary, capitalist culture.  It is a discovery beyond what our present culture inculcates in us.  It represents growth into transcendence of the presently prevailing ‘human phenome’, ‘the human phenome’ as adapted to the capital-value-relation as predominant social relation of social reproduction.”

For more 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’ -- see:

https://www.etsy.com/shop/DialecticsMATH

¡ENJOY!

Regards,

Miguel Detonacciones,

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

Participant, F.E.D. Special Council for Public Liaison,

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