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How can I get better at understanding contradiction? Specifically identifying contradictions, I’m still struggling a bit with the dialectical part of dialectical materialism.
Contradiction is the inability of a complex system to internalize new data and new conditions
For example the labor vs employer conflict and capital expansion vs the natural world are the two biggest contradictions inherent to capitalism
Liberals maintain that the acquisition of new data can somehow offset the new conditions and resolve the contradiction, always, no more matter what, like magic
While materialists argue the system can’t internalize data that contradicts the interests and incentives that animate the system entire (because that would negate the point of the system), which is Capital Accumulation
Basically if any new data that offsets capital accumulation is introduced to a system that is fueled by capital accumulation, far from what the liberals claim the contradiction is not resolved, it’s in fact heightened
To understand and spot contradictions you have to understand the nature of the specific system at play and what primary mechanism animates it. For capitalism that is profitability, everything in the system revolves like planets around that dark bronze heart
So contradictions and the orientation of the system can be spotted when you see something that either services profitability or opposes/limits it
The text On Contradiction should be helpful. In addition, On Practice (first) and On the correct handling of contradictions among the people. Contradictions are basically things that are in conflict or opposites. The metaphysical philosophy of liberalism cannot comprehend contradictions existing within something, whereas dialectics see contradictions as inherent to all things.
