Anyone new to Marxism soon encounters 'dialectics', a strange mixture of Mickey Mouse Science, Hermetic Philosophy and Stone Age Logic.
Important Notice -- the links below will become inactive from 01/07/09 since I am changing my IP. New links will be posted as soon as possible.
This site is aimed at Marxists who, like me, want to rid our movement of this mystical, pre-scientific theory.
However, it is important to note that nothing at this site is intended to undermine Historical Materialism, a theory I fully accept.
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Begin here:- Introduction
A concise overview of my ideas can be found here:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/rosa.l/Why%20I%20Oppose%20DM.htm
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Essay One: Why I Began This Project
Essay Two: Dialectics -- Imposed On Reality, Not Read From It
Essay Three, Part One: Abstract Ideas 1 -- The Heart Of The Beast
Essay Three, Part Two: Abstract Ideas 2 -- Or, 'Science' On The Cheap
Essay Four: Formal Logic Can Handle Change
Essay Five: Motion Is Not Contradictory
Essay Six: Trotsky And The 'Law' Of Identity
Essay Seven: Engels's Three 'Laws'
Essay Eight, Part One: Change Through 'Internal Contradiction' -- Refuted
Essay Eight, Part Two: Why Opposing Forces Cannot Be 'Contradictions'
Esay Eight Part Three: What Are 'Dialectical Contradictions'?
Essay Nine, Part One: Why Workers Ignore 'Materialist Dialectics'
Essay Nine, Part Two: The Serious Damage Dialectics Has Done To Marxism
Essay Ten, Part One: Practice Refutes Dialectics
Essay Eleven, Part One: The 'Totality' -- WTF Is It?
Essay Eleven, Part Two: Dialectical Wholism -- Full Of Holes
Essay Twelve, Part One: Dialectical Materialism And Metaphysics -- Or, Lenin Thinks the Unthinkable
Essay Thirteen, Part One: Materialism And Empirio-Criticism -- Demolished
Essay Thirteen, Part Three: 'Mind', Language And 'Cognition' -- Or, Voloshinov Debunked
Many of my Essays have not been published yet; here is an outline of one of them:
Summary of Essay Fourteen: Hegel, Hermeticism And 'Materialist Dialectics'
Summaries of my published Essays can be found here.