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Oh Dear! Yet Another Dialectical Screw Up
Visitors can read an impressively superficial response to my Essays here.
The following is what I posted at this comrade's blog in reply (slightly edited):
Kapitano, among the many fabrications you try to pull, is this:
"Secondly, her Popperian reading only works, even in strictly Popperian terms, if she can show that the acceptance or rejection of dialectical reasoning was the sole determining factor in all (or any) past defeats."
I am not a Popperian, never have been, and never will be.
Nothing at my site even remotely suggests that I am.
Further, not only do I not claim that dialectics is the cause of Marxism's long-term failure, I go out of my way to make it clear I think it is just one among its many causes.
And nowhere do I say this (nor would I):
"That, for instance, the failure of attempts by the German left to stop the rise of Nazism were a test of the dialectic, and of nothing else."
Just like other Dialectical Mystics who attempt to 'take me on', you can only do so by making stuff up.
Which is exactly as I predicted in those parts of my site you did not bother to check.
As for this:
"Differential Calculus is a branch of mathematics which deals with change in a way that resembles dialectical logic...."
I am a mathematician, so this won't wash (indeed, I trash this idea in Essay Seven, here).
And here you merely expose your ignorance:
"This is just silly. If you want to know about First-Order Logic, Aristotelian syllogism theory, or the work of Frege, Russell, Whitehead, Tarski and Quine, ask a Marxist who's made extensive study of dialectical logic."
Dialecticians, almost to a robot, have shown repeatedly that they are logical incompetents, as was Hegel.
Don't believe me? Then read Essay Four (especially here) where I demonstrate this in extensive detail. [Added February 2008: a simplified outline of Hegel's errors can now be found here.]
More of the same invention:
"In other words, 'They don't listen to me because they're scared'. I'll have to reserve judgement on this one."
I do not assert this; but I do show that such comrades stop their ears for the same reason you have: you/they can't answer my arguments (except you/they have to make things up to attribute to me that I neither say nor believe).
"Strawman. No one has ever claimed the workers are instinctively dialectical. To say that Marxism is derived from what is in the interests of the workers is not to say it comes from what the workers are interested in."
Another incorrect inference; I claim that workers ignore Dialectical Marxism for other reasons. Check out Essay Nine.
Please stay away from my site if this is how you are going to read what I have to say!
[I will, however, link to your blog for yet another example of the deleterious effect of Hegel's Logic on the thought of fellow comrades.]
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It is really very helpful of DM-fans, who seem to go out of their way to verify all my predictions about their unreasonable and irrational behaviour.
However, to date, we still await a single DM-fan who is able to refute my work, or even defend their 'theory'.
He/she should try to do this by tackling what I actually say, rather than what he/she can make me say.
© Rosa Lichtenstein 2008
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