User:RD/9k/diamat not yet molecular (Q618)

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618. Dialectical materialism hasn't been molecularized yet -> how did it only occur to me today. the reason I've always been so confident in dialectical materialism is because I think it can be molecularized. many people will go "but what is a contradiction"?? and that's always sounded stupid to me because I'm always able to visualize the parts of a contradiction assembling together into an object, and scattering away from being an object, and contradictions existing while the object exists. to me that is totally intuitive — contradictions are the things that exist during the time objects made of multiple pieces exist. objects like rocks don't contain many contradictions, except at very small scales. objects like chickens contain a wild array of contradictions. that's what Materialist contradictions are: they're not primarily things that destroy each other, but combinations of physical objects that make interactions possible. that said, most people don't think hard enough about the beginning and ending steps of forming and scattering. there are serious questions to be asked about whether a diffuse scattering of "grains" can have contradictions before it forms a single identifiable object or group, and whether these contradictions could lead to forming objects. I'm inclined to think the answer to that is "yes". thinking about a Marxist party, it would seem there are processes of accumulating good theorists and good ideas and networks that structure representatives into a nation before the final object, the party-nation, exists. in one sense there are no real separations between objects, because otherwise objects would never be able to form; in another sense (the Heideggerian sense), there must be separations between objects for objects to have successfully formed. so contradictions exist throughout an object's whole lifetime from the first moment it is a bunch of scattered grains, and a startling consequence of this is that some objects that appear to contain contradictions relating to the development of that object are actually multiple objects that are not contributing to each other's development directly but are instead developing into two separate objects containing their own contradictions.

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