Dialectic as defined by Hegel is contradictory with the concept of complex systems. Complex systems are integrated based on the conjunction “and”, and their evolution includes the complementation between the apparent opposites.
This dialectical thinking of Hegel, who considers the synthesis as a result of the opposition between a thesis and an antithesis, permits the construction of parallel realities based on the disintegration of the real world and the construction of a world where the limitless evolution of ideas drives towards an ideal.
Hegel builds an apparently upgrading fallacy.
Marx’s perceives the fallacy implicit in Hegel’s approach but he can not get rid of his dualistic approach to reality and his need to build a better future that only depends on the promotion of an adequate antithesis.
But his materialistic approach hindered him to accept an ethic of added value in the real world.
He built a dialectic based on the definition that thesis is given by an existent myth and the antithesis is a utopia that will change the myth creating a new environment. This implied considering that the utopia is a response to the existing myth.
But in real life, myths limit utopias, sustaining an underlying purpose which is considered a taboo.
Utopias are not responses to myths but reactions to taboos. They are born to change an existing purpose to be achieved.
Marxist dialectic drove to human declination because the fallacy he had built required materialistic absolute ideologies to sustain it.
The perception of dialectics
To perceive dialectics it is necessary to have a high abstraction capacity.
Those who do not have the abstraction capacity consider the dialectical behavior based on observable facts of reality. They cannot differentiate correlations from cause-effect relations.
Instead of seeing the relation between B and C as an effect relation they consider the relation causal, because they perceive the effect limiting function of C as a cause of B’s functionality.
When causal relations cannot be perceived it is not possible to forecast the probabilities of success of actions.
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