By
Niki
Raapana
and
Nordica Friedrich
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Introduction: Why
study Hegel?
"...the State 'has the supreme right
against the individual, whose supreme duty is to be a
member of the State... for the right of the world spirit
is above all special privileges.'" Author/historian
William Shirer, quoting Georg Hegel in his The Rise
and Fall of the Third Reich
(1959, page 144)
In 1847 the London Communist League (Karl
Marx and Frederick Engels) used
Hegel's theory of the dialectic
to back up their economic theory of communism. Now, in the
21st century, Hegelian-Marxist thinking affects our entire
social and political structure. The
Hegelian dialectic is the
framework for guiding our thoughts and actions into
conflicts that lead us to a predetermined solution. If we do
not understand how the Hegelian dialectic shapes our
perceptions of the world, then we do not know how we are
helping to implement the
vision. When we remain
locked into dialectical thinking, we cannot see out of the
box.
Hegel's dialectic is the tool which manipulates us into a
frenzied circular pattern of thought and action. Every time
we fight for or defend against an ideology we are playing a
necessary role in Marx and Engels' grand design to advance
humanity into a dictatorship of the proletariat. The
synthetic Hegelian
solution to all these
conflicts can't be introduced unless we all take a side that
will advance the agenda. The Marxist's global
agenda is moving along at
breakneck speed. The only way to completely stop the privacy
invasions, expanding domestic police powers, land grabs,
insane wars against inanimate objects (and transient verbs),
covert actions, and outright assaults on individual liberty,
is to step outside the dialectic. This releases us from
the limitations of controlled and guided thought.
When we understand what motivated Hegel, we can see his
influence on all of our destinies. ... Hegelian conflicts
steer every political arena on the planet, from the United
Nations to the major American political parties, all the way
down to local school boards and community councils.
Dialogues and consensus-building are primary tools of the
dialectic, and terror and intimidation are also
acceptable formats for obtaining the goal. The ultimate
Third Way agenda is world
government. Once we get what's really going on, we can cut
the strings and move our lives in original directions
outside the confines of the dialectical madness. Focusing on
Hegel's and Engel's ultimate agenda, and avoiding getting
caught up in their impenetrable theories of
social evolution, gives us
the opportunity to think and act our way toward freedom,
justice, and genuine liberty for all.
Today the dialectic is active in every political issue that
encourages taking sides. We can see it in environmentalists
instigating conflicts against private property owners, in
democrats against republicans, in greens against
libertarians, in communists against socialists, in neo-cons
against traditional conservatives, in community activists
against individuals, in pro-choice versus pro-life, in
Christians against Muslims, in isolationists versus
interventionists, in peace activists against war hawks. No
matter what the issue, the invisible dialectic aims to
control both the conflict and the resolution of differences,
and leads everyone involved into a new cycle of conflicts.
We're definitely not in Kansas anymore.
For a visual concept, see this
simple chart [page
now deleted] of the
Hegelian Dialectic and Marx's Dialectical Materialism,
posted by the Calverton Private School.
Definitions:
Merriam-Webster:
"Dialectic ....the Hegelian
process of change in which a concept or its realization
passes over into and is preserved and fulfilled by its
opposite... development through the stages of thesis,
antithesis, and synthesis in accordance with the laws of
dialectical materialism ....any systematic reasoning,
exposition, or argument that juxtaposes opposed or
contradictory ideas and usually seeks to resolve their
conflict ...
....the dialectical tension or opposition between two
interacting forces or elements."
"Dialectical Materialism ... 1 : the
Marxist theory that maintains the material basis of a
reality constantly changing in a dialectical process and
the priority of matter over mind."
Wikipedia:
"Hegel's dialectic often appears broken
up for convenience into three moments called "thesis"
(in the French historical example, the revolution),
"antithesis" (the terror which followed), and
"synthesis" (the constitutional state of free citizens).
... Much Hegel scholarship does not recognize the
usefulness of this triadic classification for
shedding light on Hegel's thought. Although Hegel refers
to "the two elemental considerations: first, the idea of
freedom as the absolute and final aim; secondly, the
means for realising it, i.e. the subjective side of
knowledge and will, with its life, movement, and
activity" (thesis and antithesis) he doesn't use
"synthesis" but instead speaks of the "Whole": "We
then recognised the State as the moral Whole and the
Reality of Freedom, and consequently as the objective
unity of these two elements." ...
"Hegel used this system of dialectics to explain the
whole of the history of philosophy, science, art,
politics and religion, but many modern critics point out
that Hegel often seems to gloss over the realities of
history in order to fit it into his dialectical mold....
In the 20th century, Hegel's philosophy underwent a
major renaissance. This was due partly to the
rediscovery and reevaluation of him as the philosophical
progenitor of Marxism by philosophically oriented
Marxists, partly through a resurgence of the historical
perspective that Hegel brought to everything, and partly
through increasing recognition of the importance of his
dialectical method. The book that did the most to
reintroduce Hegel into the Marxist canon was perhaps
Georg Lukacs's History and Class Consciousness. This
sparked a renewed interest in Hegel reflected in the
work of Herbert Marcuse, Theodor Adorno, Ernst Bloch....
"Beginning in the 1960's, Anglo-American
Hegel scholarship has attempted to challenge the
traditional interpretation of Hegel as offering a
metaphysical system."
See
Popular Occultism
The
Hegelian dialectical formula:
A (thesis) versus B (anti-thesis) equals C (synthesis).
For example: If (A) my idea of freedom conflicts with (B)
your idea of freedom then (C) neither of us can be free
until everyone agrees to be a slave.
The Soviet Union was based on the Hegelian dialectic, as is
all Marxist writing. The Soviets didn't give up their
Hegelian reasoning when they supposedly stopped being a
communist country. They merely changed the dialectical
language to fit into the modern version of Marxist thinking
called communitarianism. American author Steve Montgomery
explores Moscow's adept use of the Hegelian dialectic in
Glasnost-Perestroika: A Model Potemkin Village.
How is it
possible to consider a Hegelian argument?
If the ideas, interpretations of
experiences, and the sources are all wrong, can a conclusion
based on all these wrong premises be sound? The answer is
no. Two false premises do not make a sound conclusion even
if the argument follows the formula. Three, four, five, or
six false premises do not all combine to make a conclusion
sound. You must have at least one sound premise to reach a
sound conclusion. Logical mathematical formulas are only the
basis for deductive reasoning. Equally important is
knowledge of semantics, or considering the meanings of the
words used in the argument. Just because an argument fits
the formula, it does not necessarily make the conclusion
sound. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel knew this when he
designed his dialectic.
Hegel is an imperialist con artist who established the
principles of dialectical "no-reason." Hegel's dialectic has
allowed globalists to lead simple, capable, freeborn men and
women back into the superstitious, racist and unreasonable
age of imperial global dominance. National governments
represent people who are free from imperial controls over
private property, trade and production. National governments
protect their workers from imperial slavery by protecting
the worker's markets. But if you use Hegel's logical
Marxism, the only way to protect people from slavery is to
become the slave trader, just for a while. Twisted logic is
why cons are so successful, and Hegel twisted it in such a
way as to be "impenetrable." Like Hegel and Marx, the best
street con knows his spiel has to use logic to bend and
distort the story, and good cons weave their lies on logical
mathematical progression. The fallacy is in the language,
not in the math. Detective Phillip Worts' 2001 article
Communist Oriented Policing is a nice explanation of
Dialectical Materialism's influence on America.
The
communitarian purpose for the Hegelian dialectic
Hegel's theory is basically that mankind is
merely a series of constant philosophical conflicts. Hegel
was an
idealist who believed that
the highest state of mankind can only be attained through
constant ideological conflict and resolution. The rules of
the dialectic means mankind can only reach its highest
spiritual consciousness through endless self-perpetuating
struggle between ideals, and the eventual synthesizing of
all opposites. Hegel's dialectic taught all conflict takes
man to the next spiritual level. But in the final analysis,
this ideology simply justifies conflict and endless war. It
is also the reasoning behind using military power to export
an illogical version of freedom and false
democratic ideals.
The reason we can call it the justification for modern
conflicts and war, with impunity, is because no one can
prove Hegel's theory is true. No matter how many new words
they make up to define it, or how many new theories they
come up with to give it validity, we can prove beyond a
doubt that it is all false. And, we can show the final
equation in Hegels' Dialectic is:
A: The [your nation goes here] System of Political Economy
(List 1841)
B: state controlled world communism
C: state controlled global
communitarianism.
The Hegelian dialectic is the ridiculous idea that constant
conflict and continual merging of opposite ideologies, as
established by extreme right or left belief systems, will
lead spiritual mankind into final perfection. (Americans
understood man's spiritual quests to be outside the realm of
government control). Hegel's brilliance rests in his ability
to confuse and obfuscate the true motives of the planners,
and millions of people world-wide have been trying to make
sense of why it doesn't work for over 150 years. But like
the AA definition of insanity, the world keeps trying it
over and over expecting different results. ...
When Frederick Engels and Karl Marx based their communist
theory on Hegel's theory of spiritual advancement via
constant resolution of differences, they based the theory of
communism on an unproven theory.
While Darwin's theory of evolution is still being debated,
there's absolutely no proof that societies are continually
evolving. When Engels and Marx later based their communist
theory on Lewis Henry Morgan's theory of anthropology in
1877, they again based the theory of communism on an
unprovable theory.
And when
Amitai Etzioni used
Hegelian reasoning to base the Communitarian Network on a
"balance" between (A) Rights and (B) Responsibilities, he
built the entire theory of (C) communitarianism on nothing
but disproven and unprovable unscientific theories....
Already gaining substantial ground against the Americans,
British Marxism was bolstered when Charles Darwin published
his theory of human evolution in 1859. Engels, according to
modern day scholars, seized upon Darwin's theory to
substantiate communism:
"When Marx read The Origin of Species he
wrote to Engels that, 'although it is developed in the
crude English style, this is the book which contains the
basis in natural history for our view.' They turned
against what they saw as the social, as opposed to the
biological, implications of Darwinism when they realised
that it contained no support for their shibboleth of
class oppression. Since they were slippery customers
rather than scientists, they were not likely to
relinquish their views just because something did not
fit." (see: Marxism and Darwinism by Anton Pannekoek,
1912.)
In 1877 Lewis Henry Morgan published Ancient
Society, or Researches in Life, Lines of Human Progress from
Savagery, through Barbarism, to Civilization. Then the
"slippery" Engels seized upon Morgan's work as the
constantly "evolving" basis for the totally unsubstantiated
theory of natural social evolution into utopian world
communism....
Hegel's formula has been so successful that in 2003 all U.S.
domestic and foreign policy is dominated by "communitarian
thinking," the whole country is living under the new laws,
and yet Americans most affected by "impenetrable" Hegelian
laws have never once heard the term used.
Conclusion:
The Hegelian dialectic presupposes the
factual basis for the theory of social evolutionary
principles, which coincidentally backed up Marx. Marx's
Darwinian theory of the "social evolution of the species,"
(even though it has been used for a century to create a vast
new scientific community, including eugenics and
socio-economics), does not adhere to the basis for all good
scientific research, and appears to exist mainly to advance
itself, and all its sub-socio-scientific arms, as the more
moral human science. To the ACL this means the entire basis
for the communitarian solution is based on a false premise,
because there is no FACTUAL basis that "social evolution of
the species" exists, based as it is only on Darwinian and
Marxist ideology of man's "natural" evolution towards a
British version of utopia.
The London-Marxist platform in 1847 was "to abolish private
property." The American Revolution was based in private
property rights. Marxist societies confiscate wealth and
promise to "re-distribute it equally." America promised
everyone they could keep and control what was the product of
their own labor. Modern Marxist adherents openly claim they
will "rebuild the world," and they train activist "change
agents" to openly support overthrowing the legitimate
governments of the world. Since their inception, Marxist
agent provocateurs can be linked to every anarchist
assassination and student uprising that caused chaos to the
established European civilization throughout the 18th and
19th centuries. Modern Americans have succumbed to the
conspiracy theory label and will only listen to what the
propaganda machines tell them. Now our people don't believe
anyone other than maybe the Arab world "hates our freedom."
Most modern Americans will never know what went wrong with
their "great experiment in democracy."
While the Marxist-communitarian argument has not provided a
shred of evidence to prove their utopian vision, and their
synthesis does not match their own projected conclusions of
world justice, we are convinced their argument does in fact
substantiate our conclusion, that the entire philosophical
dialectical argument is nothing but a brilliant ruse. We
used to call it "a cheap parlor trick" until a responder to
this page wondered how we could call it "cheap" when it's
been so successful. And he was right. The dialectical
arguments for human rights, social equity, and world peace
and justice are a perfectly designed diversion in the
defeated British Empire's
Hegelian-Fabian-Metaphysical-Theosophical Monopoly game.
It's the most successful con job in the history of the
modern world. (For a well presented Christian overview of
the con, see American Babylon: Part Five-the Triumph of the
Merchants by Peter Goodgame.)
The communitarian synthesis is the final silent move in a
well-designed, quietly implemented plot to re-make the world
into colonies. To us it doesn't matter if there is some form
of ancient religion that propels the plotters, nor does it
really matter if it turns out they're aliens (as some
suggest). The bottom line is the Hegelian dialectic sets up
the scene for state intervention, confiscation, and
redistribution in the U.S., and this is against our ENTIRE
constitutional based society. The Hegelian dialectic is not
a conspiracy theory because the Conspiracy Theory is a
fraud. We've all been duped by global elitists who plan to
take totalitarian control of all nation's people, property,
and produce. Communitarian Plans exist in every corner of
the world, and nobody at the local level will explain why
there's no national legal avenue to withdraw from the U.N.'s
"community" development plans.
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[Emphasis added]
The Fabian Society of Australia
explains the Hegelian-Marxist Third Way synthesis.
"Re-inventing Collectivism: The new Social Democracy" by
Mark Latham, Member for Werriwa Third Way Conference, Centre
for Applied Economic Research, University of New South
Wales, Sydney, 12 July 2001:
"Over the past decade, a group of social
democrats have moved down the reinvention path. They
have developed a distinctive political project,
exploring the new institutions and forums of a
collective society. In the United States, Bill Clinton
called it the Third Way. In Britain, Tony Blair has made
it the work of New Labour."
Quotes that validate the ACL thesis that
communitarians IS the synthesis in the Hegelian dialectic:
"People are living in a snarled-up
subset of Marx's thinking, and do not know it. They
twist logic to get to conclusions that will suit the
current prejudices. They garnish it with a little
Christianity or mysticism or whatever, though these play
no important part in their world outlook." TRUTH
OVERLOOKED: THE LEGACY OF LIST by Gwydion M.
Williams (also available via Cal State LA-POLS 426
online reading list.)
"The Socialist Alliance programme is the
foundation upon which everything else is built,
including in time our exact organisational forms and
constantly shifting tactics. The programme links our
continuous and what should be all-encompassing
agitational work with our ultimate aim of a
communitarian, or communist, system. Our programme
thus establishes the basis for agreed action and is the
lodestar, the point of reference, around which the
voluntary unity of the Socialist Alliance is built and
concretised. Put another way, the programme represents
the dialectical unity between theory and practice."
[emphasis added]
Posted by Weekly Worker 368, January 25 2001. See
also: "The transition to the communitarian system" in
the same issue of the American Communist Party's
Weekly Worker.
"The market economics of the Right and
the government bureaucracies of the Left have weakened
society's connectedness. They have not been effective
forums for collective action. For Right-wing politics,
this is not much of an issue. It has always believed in
the supremacy of individual freedom and individual
action. For the Left, however, it is a huge problem.
"The old ideologies positioned politics as a
struggle for ownership, the historic battle between
socialism and capitalism. The Third Way, by
contrast, sees politics as an exercise in
communitarianism: rebuilding the
relationships and social capital between people. It
aims to put the social back into social justice. This is
an important strategy for combating individualism and
generating a sense of collective responsibility in
society."
Australian Fabian Society, "Re-inventing Collectivism:
The new Social Democracy" by Mark Latham, Member for
Werriwa Third Way Conference, Centre for Applied
Economic Research, University of New South Wales,
Sydney, 12 July 2001
"In a
passage that is notable for its vagueness, Azevedo says
that the CEBs should be the basis for a new
communitarianism that rejects the two "bankrupt" models
and systems "that are now polarizing the world,"
capitalism and Marxist socialism. This communitarianism
is to be "a dialectical synthesis, a new creation,
superimposing itself on thesis and antithesis rather
than retrieving them." The passage illustrates the
controversy in Latin American Catholicism between those
who continue to endorse the "third-position-ism" (tercerismo)
of Catholic social teaching and those (including all
liberation theologians that I know of) who believe that
only socialism can be in accord with Christian values."
Theology Today-Basic Ecclesial Communities in Brazil:
The Challenge of a New Way of Being Church By
Marcello deC. Azevedo, S.J.Washington, D.C., Georgetown
University Press, 1987. 304 Pp.
Copyright © 2001-2005, Niki
Raapana and Nordica Friedrich. Website:
http://nord.twu.net/acl/standfor.html
Niki and
Nordica are a mother-daughter team of researchers who
have researched, observed and experienced the sobering
realities and spreading dominance of
communitarianism
and its primary tool for change: the dialectic process.
Though we agree with their analysis of the dialectic
process, we can't endorse all their views.
"We
love America and the American people's spirit," wrote
Niki. "My dad's motto was always, 'For God, country,
and the 82nd Airborne!' Ours is: 'Stop communitarian
laws. The country you save may be your own.'"