lets all please line up nicely and yell at each other now :)

  • a_blanqui_slate [none/use name, any]
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    I don't think you understand the position you're arguing for or the position you're arguing against. Or your arguments for, or your arguments against.

    I think you've got an all-purpose vocabulary you can use and that's great.

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          Material dialectics is just a Marxist concept that basically means "a chain reaction of cause and effect."

          If something is not dialectical, it means it's only thought one step ahead. Like playing a chess game without realizing what the next steps are guaranteed to be.

          If you don't like that, you can actually make an argument.

          Or you can pretend like people who put effort into understanding something are dumb, actually.

          Your choice.

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            Material dialectics is just a Marxist concept that basically means “a chain reaction of cause and effect.”

            That is not what material dialectics is. You can analytically treat "chain reactions of cause and effect" without any reference to the components of a dialcetical process, and I do this constantly in mathematical modelling.

            If something is not dialectical, it means it’s only thought one step ahead. Like playing a chess game without realizing what the next steps are guaranteed to be.

            No, that is not what "not dialectical" means. You're thinking "myopic". You can be dialectical and myopic as well as being non-dialectical and non-myopic.

            put effort into understanding

            As I say to my students, the effort is great, but it's only half the battle!