I have at this point convinced my supervisor that communists have a limited capacity to predict the future, not because I talk to him about history and politics through a lens of scientific socialism all the time (I do, he’s very cool for a boomer lib) but mostly just because I am always way ahead of the news cycle as he consumes it.
communists have a limited capacity to predict the future
They literally do. I was attracted to Dialectical Materialism because it’s pretty similar to models I used to predict the future before my political awakening. Once you realize just how predictable the world is, you start to notice patterns well before they manifest themselves.
Just like with Marx Kapital, I think even non-communists should learn about it just because of how useful it is in the real world.
I find systemic thinking is one of the key differences between the liberal world model and the dialectical one. Communists recognize that the structure of the system creates pressures on society, and people act according to those pressures. Meanwhile, the whole system evolves based on collective actions. So you have this dialectical progression towards the future of a dynamic and ever changing system.
On the other hand, liberals reject systemic thinking and see the society as simply a group of individuals each acting in their own best interest completely independent of one another. In this model there is no overarching system in play, and everything becomes a discrete event. Things like wars and economic crashes just randomly happen because of some random event like the pandemic or terrorist attacks. There is never a question of how things evolved to a point of a crisis and how things could’ve been done differently.
The liberal world view is infantile and we’re now seeing what an utter disaster this ideology has produced globally.
I have at this point convinced my supervisor that communists have a limited capacity to predict the future, not because I talk to him about history and politics through a lens of scientific socialism all the time (I do, he’s very cool for a boomer lib) but mostly just because I am always way ahead of the news cycle as he consumes it.
They literally do. I was attracted to Dialectical Materialism because it’s pretty similar to models I used to predict the future before my political awakening. Once you realize just how predictable the world is, you start to notice patterns well before they manifest themselves.
Just like with Marx Kapital, I think even non-communists should learn about it just because of how useful it is in the real world.
I find systemic thinking is one of the key differences between the liberal world model and the dialectical one. Communists recognize that the structure of the system creates pressures on society, and people act according to those pressures. Meanwhile, the whole system evolves based on collective actions. So you have this dialectical progression towards the future of a dynamic and ever changing system.
On the other hand, liberals reject systemic thinking and see the society as simply a group of individuals each acting in their own best interest completely independent of one another. In this model there is no overarching system in play, and everything becomes a discrete event. Things like wars and economic crashes just randomly happen because of some random event like the pandemic or terrorist attacks. There is never a question of how things evolved to a point of a crisis and how things could’ve been done differently.
The liberal world view is infantile and we’re now seeing what an utter disaster this ideology has produced globally.