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Dialectical Materialism = He who talks fastest controls the society.

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fuagf -- 'dialectical materialism' as put forth in any such a formulation is as much pure bullshit as any other attemptedly neat and closed little ideological frame that purports to explain everything and/or to have an exclusive corner on defining truth -- and in its abstraction and reductionism it murders the actual relevance and utility of the concept of the dialectic -- which, properly understood, is nothing more or less than the inherent universal logic of the absolute particularity of social and personal history -- a logic which does not prescribe what ought to be but is essential to understanding what has been and is