Dialectical And Historical Materialism Analysis

The United States has many incredibly dense issues that it is facing at the same time. Issues such as our contradictory philosophical framework, systemic division, evolved imperialism and worker exploitation. Our political system and society as a whole are going about the solutions to these issues in the wrong way. They are analyzing all of these issues individually, while failing to assess the common themes and causation in these issues. Rather than address each of these problems independently, we must address the significant and consistent root of these problems, the love of money, rooted in Capitalism.

To do so, we must establish a common framework and model to analyze our situation. What is this model? Dialectical Materialism which is

Historical Materialism is simply the dialectic model applied into society, If we were to put this evolutionary cycle into a visualization it would appear as a cycle between 2 separate entities. The base which is made of the material conditions, makes modifications to a superstructure which is reactions based upon the material conditions. This system is best used in regards to society or historical materialism. This system can be applied to all aspects of organized life. For example, if we examine the process of ideas being widespread we see this model very clearly. The base could be considered the logical process of dialectics that exists within everyone's brain. The base in this regard examines an idea and modifies the idea according to the quantitative/qualitative process described earlier. In this way the idea is the superstructure. The individuals who examine an idea have their model of thinking altered by the idea itself; In psychology this process is called assimilation or accomodation. Thus ideas both modify and are modified by the beliefs and dialectic process of all of the ideas subscribers and examiners. In this way we can see this model at play at all times. Another example is to apply this system to society as a whole, which is described a bit easier, in the sense that the base in society can be considered the Means and the Relations of Production; which means class relations and characteristics of the means of production is how the society is fundamentally made up. These classes, the relations of production and the base as a whole modify the superstructure which is the overall idea of our society as in our culture, our politics, our media, our perceptions, etc. The superstructure is the society as a we know it while the base is the fundamental principles that make it up. Just as in the idea example from earlier, the superstructure is the overarching idea that all of the