Hegelian phenomenology is dialectics but dialectics isn’t phenomenology.
Thanks for the article, It does a good job of describing Hegelian historical analysis, via Marx’s materialist dialectics, but isn’t more than a superficial understanding of either. I’m no Hegel scholar, but “thesis, antithesis, synthesis” isn’t Hegel, its Ficte’s description of Hegel’s dialectic, and its an over simplification. The author isnt an expert but superficially on Marx and Hegel. Read Karl Marx and Human Self Creation by Cyril Smith you can skip to the bit about Hegel and Marx, but the pre history is interesting.
Marxist historical materialism is scientific, but most importantly, and what the author doesn’t seem to get, probably due to my superficial reading of the article, is that in historical materialist analysis, the subject and object are united into a single system. His dualist presuppositions in the Implications section (and likely those of his readers) are exactly what prevent access to understanding dialectics.
the appearance of pairs of diametric opposites, united by their contradictions toward one another isn’t too difficult to grapple with as an abstract concept. But in order to apply this consistently we have to radically alter our perspective, we have to unite the subject and object, the ego and the other, the body and the mind. Uniting subject and object is actually extremely difficult within even an abstract conception of post enlightenment rationality. But its one of the only way to connect understanding to truth, humanity to justice and production.
Also a better quick primer on Marxist Hegelianism might be Thesis on Feuerbach by the man himself. Also Plekhanov’s the Materialist Conception of History but that’s way out of the scope of what we are discussing.
The “rational enlightenment” and its consequences
This is not the Hegelian Dialectic. This is Hegelian Phenomenology, which is dialectical, but condensing dialectics into this single paranoid conclusion is not educational.
Invalidating anything that might conflict with your favorite epistemology? Certainly there’s no problem here, as long as you avoid philosophy
You’re 100% right
Increased interest rates make it more expensive for businesses to borrow money. This causes them to tighten up expenses to remain profitable which means cutting hours and laying people off. The more people that are unemployed, the lower wages become.
Inflation is caused by companies raising prices in response to higher revenues. Forcing people into unemployment stops that by taking money out of circulation, it just sits in accounts as capital, rather than being used to pay wages
He’s a fucking Vanderbilt, he’ll be fine
What about their concerns? Are their concerns not a problem?
This all seems very far removed from other people’s concerns about worker exploitation
Wow do you have any of it already created? Can I see it?
You lost me. Sounds like made up crap
What kind of business do you want to start?
Is that how value is determined? How others perceive value? Isn’t that kind of subjective? Is there a possibility he isn’t worth that much money? Could he be worth even more? Not like margin of error, but dramatically more or less like 20-30% off one way or the other?
I’m sorry to ask such elementary questions, but why do others value it?
How does owning something turn into hundreds of billions of dollars? I own things too, they don’t turn into hundreds of billions
The other user said it was exploited labor, what does that have to do with revenue and stock value?
Totally agree. How does the hard work become his hundreds of billions?
I’m still learning so I’m a student myself!