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  • a_jug_of_marx_piss [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    You should forget the whole "thesis antithesis synthesis" thing. It's simplified to the point of being completely false, at least when it comes to Marx's dialectics. Here's another way to see dialectics, that is only simplified to be kind of wrong:

    Dialectics, instead of looking at the world as a group of things, looks at it as processes and relations. In the common-sense view a 'thing' also, of course, can have relations and be part of processes, but dialectics chooses to view its objects as fundamentally encompassing their past, and possible futures (it's a process), and its relations to other things.

    It also has "tools" for studying this world. It often looks at types of relations, like interpenetration of opposites, quantity/quality, identity/difference, and contradiction.

    • JuneFall [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      There are only non-smokers, cause there are smokers. The social relation of a "non-smoker" exists only cause there are smokers and the negation of it becomes the non-smoker.

      The hierarchy between the hegelian master-slave pair is that the master holds the authority and no power, while the slaves hold no authority but all the power (they are who actually do things). This means that it is actually the slaves who are powerful.