My Confused Thoughts
I’ve recently completed a Masters degree in
Applied Mathematics, but my interests lie widely
in the space of philosophy and mathematics.
More about me…
What is Marxist dialectics?
The following is my attempt to answer the titular question, more-or-less riffing on Lukacs’ “What is Orthodox Marxism?” Lukacs in that piece takes several glancing stabs at a definition, but we’ll be a little more direct. Some Preliminaries What makes for a successful political philosophy? That might sound like an odd question, some philosophers might…
A Materialist Theory of Possession
Marxism prides itself on a kind of objectivity, it describes groups and behaviours. Many thinkers do take a further step into theorizing subjectivity, and there’s a kind of template for it: you describe a concrete situation, how it feels, and then your work is to describe the role or function it plays within a structure.…
On Ruling Class Power
There is a pair of questions that interest leftists, and others who see importance to a sociological view of society. First: how much control does the ruling class have? And second: how frequently is a specific social situation explained by it being conducive to the interests of the ruling class? In a Clausewitzian mold I believe we can…
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William Bell 