New member but long time lurker here and lemmygrad, it might not be a good starter post for my social credit to make such a theoretical posts but nevertheless this article is a great criticism of our method of viewing the world and basing our practice on it.
I myself admit of ideating towards idealism and thinking that diamat explained everything in the world and that the revolution IS inevitable and that there is no need to struggle anymore because it was all going to workout in the end…
I started applying the process of “negation” and “sublation” to my own life and decisions (history as an automatic upward spiral, etc.) which as you might guess lead me to nowhere, but once I realized the mistakes I had made and started epistemic overcorrection and refuted dialectical materialism(for a short while).
I would love for this to be discussed widely…
Zero attempt to engage with one of the quintessential works of Engels on dialectical materialism (or materialist dialectics, as he puts it in the work while acknowledging Joseph Dietzgen’s discovery of the same system of analysis), Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosoph.
These attempts to sever Hegel from Marxism always have what feels like an oddly conservative bent, funnily enough mimicking Hegel’s own conservatism that ran contrary to his often revolutionary work. I prefer Losurdo’s attempt to defend Hegel and Hegelian dialectics, than to cast them aside as idealist and therefore useless, https://redsails.org/losurdo-hegel-marx/.