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I got a tough one for you. Are dialectics eternal? (lemmygrad.ml)

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Rephrased, will dialectics always exist?

Have fun, because I sure don't.

edit: if it helps your thinking process a bit, consider this:

Dialectics explains the process of contradictions. So, does dialectics go through its own contradictions?
If so, that means dialectics has a process of its own and describes its own process as well. It's a bit like the "does a set of all sets contain itself" question.
But if the laws of dialectics are eternal and dialectics does not go through its own process and contradictions, then it would be eternal. Is that possible though?
And finally of course what are the implications of all of that?

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[–] ProletarianLandlord@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 6 days ago

The Marxist dialectic is just a way of thinking thats more accurate than anything thats come before it. At some point some other philosopher will end up devising a way of thinking that surpasses the Marxist dialectic. Philosophy isn't a static thing. Marx built on Hegel's ideas of dialectics taking it from it idealist sense and flipping it to apply the material world. This is how Marx was able to arrive at the conclusion that capitalism could not last. Socialism and communism will have contradictions like the capitalism that came before it. To overcome those contradictions, maybe a new way of thinking must be surmised - we do not know. For now, it is paramount to act on what we do know and overthrow capitalism. Marxism is a science. Just like Einstein expanded upon Newton's theory of gravity; Mao and Lenin expanded on the theories of Marx. It's a process. Theorising "will dialectics always exist?" is a pointless exercise. A different theory will arise. Dialectics is just the most accurate right now.