Dialectical materialism and the ‘feminine sublime’

Dialectical & Historical Materialism: the Science of Revolution

The tool of analysis is for us a further development of the historical materialist method, the dialectical method. We will not even waste our time debating the values of Marxism with those who are essentially hung up on white people – hung up to the point of ideological blindness. We understand the process of revolution, and fundamental to this understanding is this fact: Marxism is developed t...

Dialectical Materialism and Developments in Contemporary Science

Ernst Mayr Roots of Dialectical Materialism

I have been as puzzled about this comment as Zavadsky was about my writings. What I was puzzled about was, which of my ideas or concepts were considered by Zavadsky to be so close to those of the dialectical materialists. I have been wondering about this for the past 30 years and I think I have gradually come close to an answer. In this I have been helped by a number of publications, particular...

Meat, Medicine, and Materialism: A Dialectical Analysis of Human Relationships to Nonhuman Animals and Nature

The idea that humans are innately competitive and cruel is a dominant theme throughout Western thought. These notions that legitimate human cruelty to each other and other animals have their origins in biological sciences and have greatly influenced the social sciences. Sociologists, particularly Marxist sociologists, however, have often contested this view of human nature. This notion has also...

Infinity and the Sublime

We are so used to think by ourselves that we almost forget how rare and strange this psychological feat actually is. The ability to retract ‘within’ oneself is a recent and culturally determined phaenomenon which was hardly available throughout the major part of human history.[9] To think is to think aloud. Even in our own Antiquity to think and to speak did largely coincide [7]. If we look at ...