Thanks for Your reply,Arminius. We have already agreed about a number of things, among them the appropriateness of the dialectic, I saw this coming as early as the Reagan years, when the dialectic seemed to have expired with the demise of Communism. The take on it at the time was reasonable enough, it will leave a vacuum of rationale, in strictly reasonable terms.
However, no one expected a persistent widening of inclusion of an anti thesis of a system which does not operate utilizing its opposite.
In other words the US operates under a differing set of assumptions, whereby, it’s social and political evolution consisted of primarily economic condpsidetation based on overwhelming commercial values, whereas its nemesis, the former Soviets incorporated ideological primacy as their basis for society. Marx’s theory evolves out of the foreseeability of socio-economic distress as the outcome of a uncontrolled , pragmatic approach.
The widening of the function of the dialectic to include the substantial non ideological concept of Material, assumes the successful implementation of an arguably substantial pragmatic concept within the logical structure of Hegelian Dialectics. This is what he was doing, within the primary assumptions of adapting one into the other.
Is Your further inclusion of the wider variables of different systems of not only Communism and Capitalism, but there derivatives of pragmatism against idealism, (if you could see communism as aligned to a primary start of social equality as ideal).
Further, if You could claim, that globalist can change between the two The thesis or the anti thesis, if, that could account for the trouble in Germany, -but I am jumping ahead, and more needs to be said about the suprising antithesis of the German position, with their dissatisfaction with Trump.
Germany actually switched , under Merkel, granted, from an ideally oriented society, where racial purity had exclusive philosophical and historical precedents, to multi culturalism, (and again here a subset could account for this , in the argument that labor is sorely needed in Germany, hence the need to import foreign workers)-but no need to dwell on this here.
The fact is, globalists seem to underwrite the confusion, between primary and secondary considerations.
My personal impression so far , of Trump, and Trumpism, is at this early period, is that he is obscure intentionally, to cover for the workability toward the synthesis. He comes in as a populist, catering to a class who feel they really are poor, white underdogs, resenting what they feel as reverse discrimination in terms of programs devoted to economic equalization, - and ironically, being one the wealthiest people in the US, he wins. He is the paradigm of a synthetic man, a pragmatist, whose message sounds more like a socialist. Is this not the perfect example of adopting a prahmatic materialism to a social dialectic?
What this means, or could possibly mean, is that Trump suffers from inauthenticity at the very least, or a gross manufacturer of misrepresented goods, at the worst.
Perhaps this confusion became appearently inHamburg to the stent it had, coming to open social violence, whereas the confusion in the US, so far has been subdued, and sustained on the level of verbal dissension.
The big question is, whether the confusion is the effect of the failure of the wider dialectical inclusion of the very antithesis that produced the different systems, if it is somewhat possible to believe that Marx substantiation of Hegel’s pure dialectic was a proximate cause of the evolution of the differing thesis of communism; whereas, now it is no longer a question of the evolutionary differentiation, but the setting up of an allegedly failed system against the other.
Can a conclusion of sorts be reached, at least on some level? Can it be that with the alleged demise of the substantiated dialectical materialism, a further failure of pure capitalism was not foreseen? And that a new synthesis in the form of globalization was to be the key to the survival of a comprehensive system?
And perhaps such a synthesis included a minimalization of the differences, by a reduction to more existential terms? That would explain the resistance of the U S federal government, namely the Department of Labor to resist the States efforts to raise the minimum hourly rate of labor?
The rationale here, is the equalization of global wages, minimizing rates of the Western Industrial Nations with those of the Third World.
The wider perimeter here is made more complicated by the possession or near possession of nuclear weapons by third world countries such as North Korea, whereby a liberal constitution would topple its dictatorship.
Arminius, a while back, You were of the opinion, that had Ms. Clinton, nuclear war would have been unavoidable, on basis of regional conflict, I suppose, which really didn’t become clear at the time in Your assessment. However, if the wider extension of a reposition of the Hegel Dialectic is considered, then it seems worthwhile to consider the widely discussed Constitutional Issued arising out of the wider conflict, as echoed by Trump’s hyperbolic rhetoric of basing the assessment of the conflict on the idea of the ‘Clash of Civilizations’. There appears a parallel here, but the question is, is Trump actually expressing hyperbolic rhetoric for the sake of sustaining or increasing the level of chaos? Or, is the world so chaotic nowadays, that Obama’s and other US presidents were trying to regulate and control the dangerous state?
So the synthesis (Heglelian) must be tethering between substantial and insubstantial manifestation, work in progress.
If the above comes close to what’s going on, then the manifested conflicts in Hamburg may be more of a symptom of a general feeling of confusion, rather then a clear sense an underlying illness.
Forgive the clumsy length, but I know , if anyone can You can distill into a general understanding of the intentended meaning here. If not, please let me know.
Don’t be surprised, if I am unable to paraphrase, technically it is impossible for me at this time, but will look into later on.
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