I’m Still Not “Post-Modern”

Following this post, I was asked a series of questions. Principally amongst these was a question it seems worth giving a quick response to on here – for clarity if nothing else. The question was relatively simple: ‘How are you suggesting an artist should express themselves?’ The answer is equally simple: I am not, in any way, advocating an Absolute Form.

An Abstract of Dialectical Materialism

‘Without revolutionary theory, there can be no revolutionary movement.’ — Vladimir Lenin.

Obviously, there are restrictions on what 1 can elaborate within an article. Dialectical materialism is the result of 1000s of years in human history – from Chinese dialectics in the Tao-Te Ching, through Indian materialism, Greek materialism, European rationalism, Hegel, Feuerbach, Marx, Lenin & up until the present. We can’t cover all of this. Instead, we are going to look at some of the fundamental developments in brief – Hegel’s critique of formal logic, Marx’s critique of Hegel – & provide a basic, hopefully practical, introduction to the theory itself. My comrade Duban has developed an introduction to the Marxist conception of history – the counter-part to this abstract – which can be found here.