Ontology talk:9k/RD/Q83

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83. Q83/Q83dialectical materialism / diamat -> at first I had this in the STM (pronounced Stem) color. not really sure what I was thinking.
83. Q83/Q83dialectical materialism
83. Q83/Q83

    dialectical materialism

    -> I have seen some rather convincing accusations that Stalin didn't even understand dialectical materialism at the moments it mattered most. that is quite a thought. if true, the crimson swatch would flat out refer to fake Marxisms that haven't even fully become Marxism. I was never bold enough to make that leap up to now. but if dialectical materialism is violet and it's the first step to a molecular Marxism and when you go all the way through you basically get Trotskyism... it doesn't look good for Stalin. it makes a lot more sense why Stalinism keeps producing "infra-Marxisms" and I felt the need to come up with meta-Marxism to get outside them though. meta-Marxism is a silly proposition if you actually have a solid dialectical materialism, but meta-Stalinism was absolutely necessary, in turn making meta-Marxism "necessary".
83. Q83/Q83dialectical materialism -> I think there's an argument this is violet. if you try to describe dialectical materialism a lot of the themes I tend to describe when I try to explain "meta-Marxism"/"existential materialism" are in it already. specifically: the concept that knowledge is tested through practice and that this would apply to two different "Marxisms" (apparently-Marxist parties) colliding with each other and having to understand each other as objects in order to decide which one is closer to Marxism and which one is closer to revisionism. I defined the concept of "Stalinists and Trotskyists run into each other, Trotskyists try their best to survive, Stalinist republic falls apart" as violet rather early on into putting together violet Marxism and kept it as violet the whole time, but it seems that if you really boil it down to its component processes this is dialectical materialism. the notion of "molecularization" where Marxist parties increasingly learn about themselves by interacting with the world and the notion of dialectical materialism overlap and to some extent are the same, though I'm not sure they're exactly the same.

Relevant texts

1911. Anarchism or Socialism (Stalin 1906) [1] / (9k) -> 'to explain Marxism, I have to recap dialectical materialism...'

On "named Marxisms"

90. Q90/Q90

    named Marxism

    / (9k) -> ... you take a Marxist party, you zoom out on it, you circle the whole thing. ... the other part is the physical content of the Marxist-tendency object in terms of objects and processes. if a party contains Marxist theorists ... if a party contains people who insist on infiltrating the British Labour Party ... a Fourth International is part of the structure of a named Marxism. ...
90. Q90/Q90infra-Marxism / (9k) -> ... a named Marxism refers to the party or movement object itself. an infra-Marxism would be the theories that object is making about itself that are sometimes accurate and sometimes incorrect because a party limited to a particular region sometimes doesn't grasp the rest of the world. ... meta-Marxism studies and criticizes infra-Marxist theories ... to create a larger "named Marxism" of sorts that is more capable of expanding into international permanent revolution than it was previously. ...
1992. Q1992/Q19,92molecular Marxism / molecularized Marxism / (9k) -> a molecular Marxism is a named Marxism [apparent form of Marxism] ... once you get a molecular Marxism [so it is Marxism], it's completely conscious of itself, or at least it's conscious of itself to the full extent it could possibly need to be. ... when Trotsky asks workers' states to understand the effect of foreign trade from capitalist countries going into the Soviet Union (for instance) and affecting its internal network of production structures, he is making a step toward meta-Marxism / molecular Marxism. ... having a good foundation for understanding the socio-economic structure of workers' states in transition, like in Marx's Capital, is a good step toward taking a particular Marxist movement and making it into a molecular Marxism; Marxism in general becomes meta-Marxism if you really do it right. ...
90. Q90/Q90named Marxism -> so... shortly after writing these (! it was maybe a day or two) I realized my standards had been too low and for years I was basically calling things "Marxisms" that I did not remotely believe were Marxism.
    so it is time for some new words. crimson tendency. crimson Socialism. dogmatic crimson tendency. crimson Materialism. strawberry Socialism. strawberry eclectic materialism. blue Socialism. (The Mensheviks.) blue Materialism. (Carl Sagan.)
    in a weird way, the color swatch system actually makes it much easier to not improperly call things Marxisms or to not improperly call them Leninism if they hypothetically were not. we can absolutely make things countable. we just need to understand that many times in the real world, tendencies proliferate because they've departed from Marxism, not actually because they're equally likely to be correct.

Dialectical materialism identifies Marxisms

618. Q618/Q618Marxism requires dialectical materialism / Marxism as a mere set of claims without its method of dialectical materialism is not Marxism -> sounds about right. ... Marxism has to produce actual change to be meaningful, or to put it another way it should produce a living, effective party when that is historically appropriate. and to do that the party needs dialectical materialism. for no particular reason I haven't been using language that way but I would have agreed for quite a while already that this statement is more correct than the language I tend to use.
618. Q618/Q618Dialectical materialism always evolves / Dialectical materialism cannot produce a single, final set of invariant conclusions to memorize; this is not to imply that the visible universe as a whole has parts that can never be understood, but it is to imply that as all material objects interact and change, new additional or updated facts are always being added
618. Q618/Q618Bordigism is not a form of Marxism / Without dialectical materialism, Bordigism is not Marxism / Bordigism is a crimson dogmatism
618. Q618/Q618Stalinism is a crimson dogmatism / Without dialectical materialism, Stalinism is not Marxism, even if it had hypothetically been the case that Stalin's party produced theoretical content derived from Marxism

Ideologies or fields

83. Q83/Q83MN (pronounced early Marxism) / dialectical materialism
4984. Q4984/Q49,84ML (pronounced M-L) / Stalin

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