Dear Psycho-History Forum Participants,

THE SECRET OF THE [PSYCHO-]HISTORICAL DIALECTIC

Marx's advance on the concept of Historical, or Diachronic, Dialectic, which was '''psycho-historically''' all but inconceivable for Plato, but which is emergent in Hegel's continuation of Plato's work -- that Hegelian opus being otherwise consumed primarily with Synchronic, or "Systematic", Dialectic [see writings by Tony Smith on Systematic Dialectic], as a dialectical method of presentation, via "categorial progressions" -- has recently been formulated as follows:


New Excerpt from F.E.D. Introductory Letter --

"The most fundamental form of dialectical opposition, the most fundamental form of dialectical '''contradiction''' -- i.e., of ontological, existential, 'essence-ial', and temporal / 'temporo-genic' INTERNAL or SELF-contradiction, as
distinguished from formal-logical, propositional contradiction -- the most fundamental form of thesis versus 'contra-thesis' confrontation -- or of ''physis'' versus 'contra-physis' confrontation -- is the '''self-reflExive''', 'self-reflUxive', '''karmic''' self-confrontation of a single 'event-entity' ['''eventity'''], of a single '''[sub-]totality''', of a
single ''''[w]hol[on][e]''', of a single '''dynamical system''', of a single '''self''', as [sentential] '''subject''', or '''agent''' of action, versus itself again, as [sentential] '''object''', i.e., as the recipient of the 'essence-ial' action ['''karma''']of the subject, mediated through the [sentential] verb-form of that 'subject-object', or 'agent-object'.

Thus the celestial '''eventities''' whose mature forms we call ["Main Sequence"] "stars" act upon themselves '''self-gravitationally''' -- starting during their
"proto-stellar" stages -- thereby inducing an implosion which, by compressing the Hydrogen atoms / proton and deuteron plasmas, at their hearts beyond a critical threshold, triggers the '''anti-implosive''', explosive "thermonuclear" force of the fusion of Hydrogen into Helium, that stops their implosive collapse in a [temporary] balance between the [nearly] spherically-symmetrical, [internally-]everywhere-opposing "vector-field" forces of implosion and explosion, until the complete fusion-conversion of their core Hydrogen into core
Helium triggers a further qualitative, ontological change.

This fundamental dialectical opposition "between" the '''eventity''' in its aspect as subject versus the self-same '''eventity''' in its aspect as object, is epitomized, in a universal sense, by the following sentence, a '''self-reflExive''', 'self-reflUxive', '''karmic''' sentence, which formulates this universal dialectical principle of '''self-activity''', '''self-change''', '''self-movement''', '''NON-LINEARITY''', or ''autokinesis'',
in its generic form --

'subject '''subjects''' subject.'

OR:

'agent '''agents''' agent.'


In the above sentence, the verb, '''subjects''', is not meant with its usual connotation alone, or mainly, but is meant primarily as the verb form of the noun '''subject''', or '''agent''', connoting the 'essence-ial', and '''essential''' /- necessary, ineluctable action of the subject upon all things it encounters as objects, including upon itself as its own object; the 'verb-name', or 'action-name' of the subject in question, whatever its 'noun-name', or 'pronoun-name'.

Of course, because the products of the 'self-production' that these sentences describe multiply the ontology of their domains, the resulting '''subjects'', '''objects''', or '''subject-objects''' engage in true '''INTER-actions''', in
addition to the '''self-interactions''', '''self-INTRA-actions''', or '''self-actions''' that the sentence above describes --


'subject '''subjects''' object.'


-- wherein '''subject''' is not synonymous with '''object'''. However, the 'self-reflExive', 'self-reflUxive', '''karmic''' form remains primary and fundamental.

This primary form is 'formulatable' equally as --

'object '''objects''' object.'

-- once it is realized that '''natural objects''' in general -- and not just individual humans, or human collectivities -- are inherently active and 'self-active'; are 'agental'; indeed, that they ARE 'activities'; that they ARE 'activity-entities'; that they ARE [nameable as] "verbs"; that they ARE '''eventities'''.

The key to the solution of the riddle of the Marxian Dialectic of Nature is the realization that pre-human, natural '''eventities''' legitimately play the role of the subject of sentences describing the '''self-evolution''' and 'self-meta-evolution' of pre-human nature, and of the '''operators''' in mathematical expressions which 'ideo-gram-ize' those 'phono-gram-ic' sentences.

It is not just individual human subjects, or the '''inter-subject-ivities''' of human-social collectivities, that warrant the subject place in such sentences, and in their corresponding ideogramic, mathematical models.

For human natur[e-]al history, the primary ''specific'' forms of the ''generic'' sentence above are --

'Humanity '''humanifies''' humanity.';

'Humanity produces humanity.'

'Humanity produces itself.'

'Humanity expandedly-reproduces itself.'

-- and the fundamental proposition of Marxian theory in this regard is the proposition that 'the accumulation of humanity' -- 'phenotypically' and '''phenomically''' as well as 'genotypically' and '''genomically'''; '''culturally''' as well as "biologically" -- within the later, final, '''descendant''' phase of the capital-relation-based epoch of -- still '''pre-historic''' [cf. Marx] human self-development-cum-self-alienation, comes into conflict with '''the accumulation of capital'''.

Using the doubly-negated, doubly-slashed equals sign, '#', as the sign for dialectical [self-]opposition / [internal-]contradiction, we then have the claim, for '''descendant-phase''' capitalism, that --


'Accumulation of Humanity' # 'Accumulation of Capital'."




For context, click the following links to the two extant versions of the F.E.D. Intro. letter --

www.adventures-in-dialectics.org . . .

www.dialectics.org . . .



Regards,

Miguel