A passage from “Who Shall Survive?”
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Trotsky’s Views On Dialectical Materialism:
Pragmatism, empiricism, is the greatest curse of American thought.
I have added the tags “emergence, coherence” to this post as the “dialectics” in materialism foreshadows these conceptions. It is so unfashionable to see a big picture, it is in the ruling class interest to obscure that there is a big picture, or to make it appear that it is a static one, “human nature”, “reality”. Dynamic processes are not discovered through looking at the trees, one must see the woods.
Dialectical materialism gets a lot right when it comes to seeing the big picture. Much of the language is dated and some of the science was current at the time, but has been superseded (as one would expect in a dynamic world).
I’ve found the work of John Bellamy Foster was able to re-kindle a sense of the value of dialectical materialism – or to put it another way: ecology.
Marx’s Ecology – Monthly Review Press:
MARX’S ECOLOGY Materialism and Nature by John Bellamy Foster
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