Negative thinking mediated through activism to become positive
Perfected Society
Contained within our society and unearthed through alchemy
Hence why Communism doesn't need to know how
Young Hegelian
Progressives who want to use dialecticism to unearth the better world (Marx)
Old Hegelian
Ultra conservative
Believe the spirit responsible for reality is expressed as the State
The individual's supreme duty is to the state
Kant
Transcendental Idealism
Beyond the sensory (understands the innate modes of processing)
Space/Time are our intuition
We cognize objects as they appear as per our sensibilities
Origin of Dialecticism
Developed by Kant
Logical critique of concepts like metaphysics
Synthetic concepts are empty without intuition
Transcendental Idealism
The fact of our having to synthesize a model in order for something means that we miss it entirely. Must transform the thesis through its antithesis to produce a synthesis which overcomes the antithesis
Marxists and Hegel
Hegel was first to take the dialectic as a theory of logic and apply it to the world through critique of Christianity
Objective idealism
Used his applied dialectics towards materialism
Triads
Hegel: Abstract, Negative, Concrete (challenge abstract with its negative and you will discover a concrete, applicable form of it which can be used to change society)
Application
Ideas shape and generate the spirit which composes itself in reality as the state. Change society through the dialectic.
Parxis begins with Hegel
Engels/Marx
Dialectic was too idealist
Engage inexorable facts instead of pure thought
Political economy
Retain historicism - development of thought proceeds in parallel with development of world history. History is the test of the thoughts preceding it.
Historicism
The dialectic moves history
Theories concentrate themselves - dialectic to dialectic.
History is the creation of an epic. Through materialism, we have a connecting point for the logical method.
Critique of Dialectic
Marx believed his dialectic to be the direct opposite of Hegel's.
Hegel: Thinking transforms the real world. Real world is an external phenomenal form of the idea
Marx: The ideal is the material wrold reflected by the mind, translated into thought.
Flipping Hegel's dialectic over to discover the rational kernel within the mystical shell
Framing Hegel's dialectic as abstract in a new dialectic, to produce dialectical materialism
This constitutes progression of history, fulfilling Hegel's historicism
