I’ve got a couple of questions that’ve a bit confusing to me to answer on my own. I’ve kind of had them pop into my head over the recent years. I wouldn’t be surprised if my own philosophical grounds are a bit shaky to answer it as I should absolutely get around to reading more, but executive dysfunction is a removed. Regardless, here is the principle question that led me to the rest of them:
If dialectics poses that every idea is born with its own negation, what is then the negation to Communism?
It’s my understanding that contradictions within an economic system produce the system that eventually overthrows the old. “From the womb of the old world a new one shall be born” and all. Dialectics also pose that all ideas have some form of negation brought into existence by the presence of the initial idea. For Feudalism, this negation was capitalism Capitalism, which will in turn be negated by Communism. If we are to hold the axiom that all ideas produce a negation true, then of course, by virtue of being an ‘idea’, Communism must also, eventually, have a negation. This leads me to the rest of my questions:
Are there contradictions present within Communism similar to how there are Contradictions under Capitalism that will result in its eventual overthrowal? If these contradictions exist, and they are present within Communism, will they not make themselves known until Communism is established? If these contradictions do not exist when class struggle comes to an end, does that mean there will no longer be a driver of change, and will Communism be the final form of human production, or will the wheel of history keep turning?
I believe the wheel of history will keep turning, because under my current understanding of it, dialectical materialism does not propose Communism to be an ‘end of history’. Change is the only constant, but perhaps I am mistaken. However, under the assumption I am correct, I have one further question. From here, if they haven’t already, this one gets to a point of pure conjecture:
When Communism is discarded and a new system emerges from its womb, will this new system be brought about violently, or will Communism be the phase on human production where revolutions can finally begin to occur democratically?
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Every system has contradictions because unity exists through its contradictions. What these contradictions are determine what must be done. The difference in communism is that the science of dialectical materialism wielded by a classless society educated in diamat and scientific socialism can conciously relate to it’s own contradictions and work to resolve them amicably and constructively. What an economic system would look like after communism is uncertain, and ventures into science fiction about future means of productions and relations of productions. But the relation society has to its contradictions is permanently changed.
If we are sci-fiying, we could point to potential things like biological or cybernetic transhumanism or digital superintelligence as shakeups to existing production relations. Or something like revolutionary breakthroighs in technology like efficient and safe fusion or ftl travel or matter printing from energy and voce versa. Or settling new planets in the solar system. But this is all science fiction.
When mankind reaches a classless stateless society I would imagine the end of that period would be violent. My spitballing guess would be some sort of morlock and eloy situation.