The West (tm) actually has all the pieces of dialectical materialism, but refuses to "assemble" them so to speak. They have broken up the pieces into empiricism, pragmatism (the American philosophy, not the colloquial sense of the word), and systems theory.
>Empiricism: has knowledge from experience (but often fragmented)
>Pragmatism: truth is what works
Systems theory: everything is interconnected
dialectical materialism combines all these insights into one coherent whole: reality is material and exists independent of our minds. things are interdependent, always changing, constantly in development, have to be studied in their context, and to understand reality we need to not just theorize, not just act, but put theory into practice, turn practice back into theory, closing the theory-practice loop, while remembering always that the particular is a case study of the general, that the general fails to describe the particular, and general both does and does not equate to the particular.
That’s a lot of work to just end up dead or in jail
Because dialectical materialism came with critique against capitalism, so it had to be stigmatized and rejected, but because it’s true philosophers and scientists eventually stumbled upon it independently again.
>>2801811>Because dialectical materialism came with critique against capitalism, so it had to be stigmatized and rejected, but because it’s true philosophers and scientists eventually stumbled upon it independently again.The problem is, like OP said, they keep finding the pieces of it and don't assemble those pieces. I think this goes back to Hume being afraid of too much generality.
"Dialectical Materialism" is just professional sophistry invented to defuse criticisms of the USSR.
>>2801854elaborate and cite sources, vaguepost king
>>2801793the west is built on platonic dualism, the sacrum and profanum and utter contempt for the material
materialism is a result of non-western though and people polluting the western world
and by materialism i mean the colloquial love for the material not the philosophical nihilism although that is also foreign
>>2803334austrian school, ayn rand list goes on
>>2803326thought isn't "western" or "non-western", this is nonsense that centers geo-polytricks.
>>2803394there's a whole bunch of concepts transpiring through all western world, there's a whole bunch of concepts foreign across western world
so yeah thought can be western or non-western