Ok, JohnDWhite, you have
Ok, JohnDWhite, you have posted an old address. The correct one is now:
http://anti-dialectics.co.uk/index.htm
DJP:
“‘Dialectical-Materialism’ of the kind that used to be spread by the ‘communist’ parties is a sham and a fraud, its no wonder people are suspicious of it. The same can be said for Rosa Lichtenstein and her crusade”
Well, that is a far easier accusation to make than to prove. My site is in fact devoted to debunking all forms of dialectics that have descended with or without modification from Hegel, upside down or ‘the right way up’.
“If you want to know about dialectics read Dietzgen, it’s a shame he has pretty much dropped off the radar.”
In fact, Dietzgen’s rather poor, a priori speculations are far easier to refute than are those of Engels and Plekhanov. But we can discuss this further the moment you post something — anything — of his that is worthy of merit.
And by a priori speculation I mean assertions like this:
“As a review in the October 1998 Standard put it ‘dialectics means that, in analyzing the world and society, you start from the basis that nothing has an independent, separate existence of its own but is an inter-related and interdependent part of some greater whole (ultimately the whole universe) which is in a process of constant change.'”
Not only is there no proof of this, there couldn’t be. For example, how is it possible for everything to be ‘inter-related’ when there are vast regions of space and time that are, and always will be, inaccessible to us? On this, look up ‘light cone’ using Google — for example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_cone
Indeed, I have shown this idea up for what it is, here (i.e., it’s a left-over from mystical Hermeticism — Hegel was a Hermetic mystic):
http://anti-dialectics.co.uk/page%2011_01.htm
“So there is something in what Lichtenstein is saying but she just gets lost in long and boring rants and hasn’t really studying her subject well enough.”
I am used to fans of the dialectic substituting personal abuse for contrary argument and/or evidence, but if my work is ‘boring’, then Dietzgen will positively put you to sleep for good.
And what, may I ask, is your proof that I haven’t studied this topic “well enough”?