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americanslime
1yr ago
Those different individuals, norms, and perceptions exist in a social ecology. They compete, cooperate, exist symbiotically, and change over time in reaction to one another and to broader environmental conditions. It's not clear which of them are "right" per se, because what is "right" in most cases varies depending on a specific set of circumstances-we can and must reason about it, but making claims to knowledge is spurious. The point here is that there is a true "right way," but it changes-thus, no one culture or set of norms that I'm aware of is likely to get everything right at all times. Getting more into the weeds, the parent philosophy of dialectical naturalism is social ecology, which offers dialectical naturalism as an epistemological theory, and communalism as a related political theory.
americanslime
1yr ago
Well I agree that it’s distinct-Bakunin was basically a Marxist (even though he hated Marx’s authoritarianism), but I definitely don’t believe that it’s altogether distinct-Marx’s basic idea is to explain nature dialectically, he just happens to do this in a peculiar economistic way and believes he can make very specific predictions about political economy because of it. So while I agree he’s not as concerned with the metaphysics which the essay is about, they do stem from the same root imo
You're gonna have to ask a more specific question than that lol
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