Why Dialectical Materialism Excels at Macro-Historical Dynamics but Falls Short on Moral Intuition and Personality
Humanity has been fighting over differences since before feudalism. This isn't strictly a capitalist phenomenon, even if capitalism perfected its exploitation. Identity politics has divided humanity for millennia through irreconcilable moral differences. Even Marx recognized something was fundamentally wrong, which drove him toward dialectical materialism as a framework to identify and explain that wrongness. The "they have us divided so we don't go after them" argument has a logical endpoint most people avoid stating plainly. It demands we align with people who want us dead, enslaved, or subordinated simply because they share an economic bracket with us. Working class fascists are still fascists. Poverty doesn't neutralize someone who believes you shouldn't exist. A united front with people who consider you subhuman isn't solidarity, it's suicide dressed as strategy. So no, it isn't only the elite keeping us divided. Material conditions generate r...
