What's New:

July 2020

02/07/20: Over the last two months I have been engaged in a long and fruitless debate with a fan of 'Systematic Dialectics' I met on Quora a year or so ago. I'm in the middle of composing my latest reply to him, here .

April 2020

01/04/20: I have once again re-written Essay Four Part One -- Formal Logic Can Handle Change , adding approximately 4300 words of new material, which makes it 3.6% longer. I have again slightly reorganised the Essay, clarified the argument and corrected several serious errors and minor typos.

February 2020

10/02/20: I have again re-written Essay Four Part One -- Formal Logic Can Handle Change , adding approximately 3300 words of new material, which makes it 2.8% longer. I have also slightly reorganised the Essay, greatly clarified the argument and corrected several serious errors and minor typos.

January 2020

13/01/20: A close relative of mine has spent the last two weeks converting my system to Windows 10, which is one reason why there has been no activity on this site since late December.

As noted above, if you are using Edge, Windows 10 will render the links I have inserted in my Essays (other than on this page!) several different colours. They should be dark blue.

Firefox and Chrome reproduce them correctly.

December 2019

16/12/19: Essay Three Part One -- How Abstractionism Undermines Dialectics -- has been completely re-written and re-organised. I have added just over 19,000 words of new material making it approximately 14% longer. I have also corrected a few errors and typos and made the argument much clearer.

November 2019

10/11/19: Essay Ten Part One: Dialectical Materialism: Refuted By Practice And History has just been re-written and slightly re-structured. I have added just short of 3500 words of new material, making it approximately 5% longer. I have also corrected several errors and typos, and have clarified my argument.

I have also re-written Essay One: Why I Began This Project .

September 2019

23/09/19: I have just re-written and restructured Essay Nine Part Two -- How Petty-Bourgeois Revolutionaries And Their Theory, Dialectical Materialism, Have Damaged Marxism . I have added just over 14,000 words of new material, making it approximately 7% longer. I have also corrected several errors and typos and clarified the argument.

04/09/19: I wasn't too happy with my last re-write of Essay Eight Part Three -- Dialectical 'Logic' And Dialectical 'Contradictions' Exposed As Incoherent -- so I have re-written it once more. I have added another 3200 words of new material, which means it is now about 4% longer. Again, I have corrected several errors and typos as well as greatly clarifying the argument.

July 2019

22/07/19: I have now completely re-written Essay Eight Part Three: Dialectical 'Logic' And Dialectical 'Contradictions' Exposed As Incoherent . I have added over 11,000 words of new material, making it approximately 16% longer, corrected a few errors and typos and clarified the argument.

This Essay also contains the first detailed take-down of Michael Kosok's lamentable attempt to 'formalise' Hegel's 'Logic'.

May 2019

01/05/19: Essay Five -- Motion Isn't Contradictory -- has just been re-written and completely re-organised. I have added about 6,000 words of new material (making it about 7% longer), corrected a few errors and typos and clarified the argument.

February 2019

27/02/19: I have just finished re-writing Essay Nine Part One -- Why Workers Will Always Reject 'Materialist Dialectics' , adding just over 2,000 words of new material, which makes the Essay about 2.6% longer. I have also reorganised the Essay a little, clarified the argument and corrected a few errors and typos.

01/02/19: I have again re-written Essay Four Part One -- Formal Logic Can Handle Change , adding approximately 6500 words of new material, which makes it 6% longer. I have also slightly reorganised the Essay, clarified the argument and corrected several errors and typos.

October 2018

I am having to move flats since the owner of my flat defaulted on his mortgage and it was sold under his feet.

There will be no more updates for couple of months.

September 2018:

03/09/18: I have now re-written Essay Eleven Part One -- The 'Totality' -- WTF Is It? I have added approximately 4,000 words of new material, making it 4% longer. I have also made my argument clearer and corrected several errors and typos.

July 2018:

30/07/18: I have just re-written and re-organised Essay Four Part One -- Formal Logic Can Handle Change . I have added just over 5,000 words of new material, making it approximately 5% longer. I have also made my argument clearer and corrected several errors and typos.

I am also half-way through doing the same with Essay Eleven Part One -- The 'Totality' -- WTF Is It? .

June 2018:

04/06/18: I have completely re-written and re-organised Essay Seven Part One -- Engels's Three 'Laws' Of Dialectics Debunked . I have added 12,500 words of new material, making it approximately 7% longer, clarified the argument and corrected several errors and typos.

April 2018:

24/04/18: Essay Ten Part One -- Dialectical Materialism: Refuted By Practice And History -- has just been re-written. I have added approximately 4,200 words of new material (making it just under 6% longer), and corrected a few errors and typos.

07/04/18: I have just finished re-writing and re-organising Essays Two and Four Part One -- Dialectics -- Imposed On Reality, Not Read From It and Formal Logic Can Handle Change .

I have corrected several errors and typos in both, adding approximately 6300 words of new material to Essay Two (making it just under 5% longer) and about 5000 words of new material to Four Part One (making it also about 5% longer).

February 2018:

14/02/18: I have just published two more instalments in my long-running reply to a Confused Marxist-Leninist, who posted two largely incoherent videos which tried to respond to an Introductory Essay of mine -- i.e., Refuting a Weak Attempt to Refute Me 11 & 12. All my replies to this individual, including the latest two, can be accessed here .

09/02/18: Essay Thirteen Part Three -- 'Mind', Language, And 'Cognition' -- has been completely re-written and reorganised. I have clarified the argument, corrected several typos and errors and added over 11,000 words of new material, making it approximately 6% longer.

January 2018:

25/01/18: Because it sets up the other Essays at this site, I have completely re-written and re-organised Essay Three Part One -- How Abstractionism Undermines Dialectics . It shows how core ideas Hegel dreamt up originated in Ancient Greek Metaphysics and Medieval Theology (connected with the re-configuration of subject-predicate sentences as identity propositions), and how this abstract approach to knowledge has totally undermined, not just Dialectical Materialism, but the language used by dialecticians to explain their theory.

I have reorganised this Essay, clarified the argument considerably, corrected several serious errors and annoying typos, and have added approximately 7500 words of new material, making it about 6% longer.

December 2017:

18/12/17: Essay Eight Part Two -- Why Opposing Forces Aren't Contradictions -- has just been re-written. I have corrected several errors and typos, clarified the argument and added approximately 12,000 words of new material, making it about 12% longer.

04/12/17: I have just re-written the opening Essay of this site -- Why I Began This Project . The argument has been clarified, with 800 words of new material added, making it approximately 2% longer.

November 2017:

15/11/17: The second edition of Richard Seymour's excellent book about Jeremy Corbyn was published last month:

05/11/17: Because of its complexity, I have just re-written Essay Eleven Part Two: Dialectical Wholism -- Full Of Holes I have clarified the argument, corrected a few errors and typos, and added 3,400 words of new material (making it approximately 5% longer).

October 2017:

05/10/17: I have just re-written two Essays:

(1) Essay Four Part One: Formal Logic Can Handle Change . I have completely re-designed this Essay and have also greatly clarified the argument; I have also corrected a few errors and typos. Approximately 2,300 words of new material has been added, making it roughly 2.5% longer.

(2) Essay Five: Why Motion Isn't Contradictory . The argument has also been greatly clarified, and a few errors and typos corrected. 3,500 words have been added, making it roughly 4% longer.

August 2017:

25/08/17: I have just re-published Essay Twelve Part One: Why All Philosophical Theories, Including Dialectical Materialism, Are Non-Sensical . This Essay has been completely re-written and re-structured, since much of it was rather obscure, and, incidentally, wrong. It is now 30% longer, having had 38,000 words of new material added.

June 2017:

15/06/17: Essay Two: Dialectics -- Imposed On Reality, Not Read From It has been completely re-structured and re-written. I have added 2500 words of new material, making it about 2% longer. I have also re-written Essay One: Why I Began This Project .

May 2017:

I have spent the last two months re-writing the summaries of all the main Essays at this site, and I have finished all but three of them. The re-written Essays can be accessed here .

March 2017:

20/03/17: Essay Nine Part Two -- How Petty-Bourgeois Theorists And Their Theory, Dialectical Materialism, Have Damaged Marxism -- has been completely re-written. I have added 36,000 words of new material and several new sections, making it approximately 22% longer. I have also clarified the argument, and corrected a few errors and typos.

February 2017:

14/02/17: I have just re-written Essay Three Part Two -- Abstractionism: 'Science' On The Cheap . I have added approximately 8000 words of new material, making it about 10% longer. I have also clarified the argument and corrected several errors and typos.

January 2017:

0 1/01/17: I have just re-written the Essay, Was Wittgenstein a Leftist?

I have corrected a few errors and typos and added just under 2000 words of new material, making it approximately 2% longer.

December 2016:

12/12/16: Essay Five -- Why Motion Isn't Contradictory has just been re-written. I have clarified the argument considerably, corrected a few errors and typos with just over 2500 words of new material, making it approximately 3% longer.

November 2016:

28/11/16: I have just finished re-writing Essay Nine Part One -- Why Workers Will Always Reject 'Materialist Dialectics' , adding 8,000 words of new material making the Essay just over 12% longer. I have also clarified the argument and corrected a few errors and typos.

12/11/16: Essay Ten Part One -- Dialectical Materialism: Refuted By Practice And History has just be re-written and re-organised to make the argument clearer and run more smoothly, adding approximately 6,000 words of new material, making it 8% longer. I have also corrected a few errors and typos.

08/11/16: I have just re-written one of the summaries of Essay Twelve Part One -- Why All Philosophical Theories Are Non-Sensical .

The argument is now, I think, far more perspicuous.

October 2016:

30/10/16 -- I have now finished re-formatting the entire site (other than this page!).

I have also finished re-writing Essay One -- Why I Began This Project . It is now about 10% longer.

I am also in the middle of replying to another largely incoherent video published by ' The Finnish Bolshevik '. The first four of my responses can be accessed here , here , here , and here .

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I am in the middle of reformatting the Essays published at this site, replacing much of the garish red font with black. I am also having to correct several other serious formatting glitches mysteriously introduced by the editor I have used, Microsoft's FrontPage. This should take another two or three weeks to complete.

August 2016:

18/08/16: I have just finished re-writing Essay Eight Part Two -- Why Opposing Forces Aren't Contradictions -- adding just over 18,000 words of new material, making it approximately 22% longer. I have also clarified the argument and corrected several errors and typos.

In addition, I have added a section on Immanuel Kant's attempt to introduce 'real opposition'/'negation' into philosophy, which 'concept', we are told, was integral to Hegel's own invention of 'dialectical contradictions'.

I have also critically analysed Tom Weston's attempt to link a throw-away remark Marx added to Volume One of Das Kapital (about elliptical motion) to Hegel's confused introduction of 'dialectical contradictions'.

I will say more about Weston's ill-considered article in a later re-write of Essay Nine Part One .

13/08/16: A couple of months ago I re-wrote Essay Six -- Trotsky And Hegel -- Or, How To Misconstrue The 'Law' Of Identity , but on re-reading it, it was apparent that the argument wasn't as clear as it could or should be. I have now re-written it again, adding just under 3,000 words of new material, making it approximately 5% longer still, greatly clarifying the argument and correcting several errors and typos.

June 2016:

25/06/16: I have just finished re-writing Essay Eight Part One -- Change Through 'Internal Contradiction' -- An Incoherent Dogma . I have added approximately 3,500 words of new material, making it 8% longer.

I have also clarified the argument and corrected several errors and typos.

12/06/16: Last year, a self-styled 'Marxist-Leninist' (who calls himself 'The Finnish Bolshevik' [TFB]) published a video at YouTube criticising an Essay I wrote some time ago at the behest of one or two younger comrades who wanted a basic introduction to my criticisms of DM. I subsequently published a reply to this video, but TFB has now posted a second video at YouTube attempting to respond to a few of my replies to him.

I have now published the first part of my response to this latest video.

[Links to the first video and my replies to it can be found at the above link.]

04/06/16: I have just finished re-writing Essay Four Part One -- Formal Logic And Change . I have added approximately 13,500 words of new material, making it roughly 17% longer. I have also clarified the argument and corrected several errors and typos.

May 2016:

04/05/16: I have just finished re-writing Essay Six -- Trotsky And Hegel -- Or, How To Misconstrue The 'Law' Of Identity . I have added just over 5,000 words of new material, making it approximately 11% longer. I have also clarified the argument and corrected several errors and typos.

04/05/16: Here's a new book by Richard Seymour I can heartily recommend:

From the publisher's website :

Up-to-date analysis of how Corbyn rose to the head of the Labour Party, and his prospects for staying there. Jeremy Corbyn, the 'dark horse' candidate for the Labour leadership, won and won big. With a landslide in the first round, this unassuming antiwar socialist crushed the opposition, particularly the Blairite opposition.



For the first time in decades, socialism is back on the agenda -- and for the first time in Labour’s history, it controls the leadership. The party machine couldn't stop him. An almost unanimous media campaign couldn't stop him. It is as if their power, like that of the Wizard of Oz, was always mostly illusion. Now Corbyn has one chance to convince the public to support his reforming ambitions.



Where did he come from, and what chance does he have? This book tells the story of how Corbyn's rise was made possible by the long decline of Labour and a deep crisis of British democracy. It surveys the makeshift coalition of trade unionists, young and precarious workers, and students, who rallied to Corbyn. It shows how a novel social media campaign turned the media's 'Project Fear' on its head, making a virtue of every accusation they threw at him. And finally it asks, with all the artillery that is still ranged against Corbyn, and given the crisis-ridden Labour Party that he has inherited, what it would mean for him to succeed.

April 2016:

24/04/16: I have just finished re-writing Essay Eleven Part Two -- Dialectical Wholism -- Full Of Holes . I have added just over 3,000 words of new material, making it approximately 5% longer. I have also clarified the argument and corrected several errors and typos.

17/04/16: Having re-written Essay Three Part One, I thought it wise to do the same to its sequel, Essay Three Part Two -- Abstractionism: 'Science' On The Cheap . I have added approximately 4000 words of new material, making it about 5% longer. I have also clarified the argument and corrected several errors and typos.

02/04/16: I have just finished re-writing Essay Three Part One -- How Abstractionism Undermines Language And Science . I have added just over 25,000 words of new material, making it approximately 26% longer. I have also clarified the argument and corrected several errors and typos.

However, the biggest change is that I have added an Appendix which contains a detailed criticism of an attempt to defend Hegel against criticisms advanced by Bertrand Russell .

February 2016:

10 /02/16: Essay Thirteen Part One -- Lenin's Disappearing Definition Of Matter -- has just been re-written. I have added just over 3,000 words of new material, making it approximate Ely 4% longer. I have also clarified the argument and corrected several errors and typos.

02/02/16: I have just finished re-writing Essay One -- Why I Began This Project . I have added approximately 3,000 words of new material, making it roughly 10% longer. I have also clarified the argument and corrected several errors and typos.

January 2016:

22/01/16: I have just finished re-writing Essay Seven Part One -- Engels's Three 'Laws' Debunked . I have added just over 15,000 words of new material, making it approximately 10% longer. I have also clarified the argument and corrected several errors and typos.

December 2015:

28/12/15: I have just re-written Essay Seven Part Three -- Why Dialectical Materialism Can't Explain Change .

I have added just over 1000 words of new material, making it approximately 2% longer. I have also made the argument clearer and have corrected several errors and typos.

November 2015:

27/11/15: I have just finished yet another re-write of Essay Eleven Part One -- The 'Totality' -- WTF Is It ?

I have added just short of 14,000 words of new material, making it approximately 12% longer. I have also made the argument clearer and have corrected several errors and typos.

I have re-written this Essay again so soon after the last re-write because, as I say in the preamble, I wasn't happy with the way I had approached this topic. This means that it will have to be re-jigged many more times before I am content with the end product.

August 2015:

24/08/15: I have just finished re-writing Essay Eleven Part One -- The 'Totality' -- WTF Is It ?

I have added 11,000 words of new material, making it just over 10% longer. I have also made the argument clearer and have corrected several errors and typos.

10/08/15: I recently spotted an article in Weekly Worker written by Jack Conrad that attempted to defend both DM and the traditional view that Marx and Engels were of one mind when it came to that theory/method.

I wrote a 2000 word reply which they published in edited form as a letter .

The full, un-edited version can be accessed here .

June 2015:

26/06/15: I have just finished a re-write of Essay Four: Formal Logic Can Handle Change .

I have added just over 6000 words of new material, making the Essay approximately 8% longer. I have also clarified the argument, and corrected several mistakes and typos.

18/06/15: Over the last three or four months my time has largely been occupied correcting the formatting problems at this site ( mentioned above ). That onerous task is now nearly complete.

The next Essay to be published at this site -- devoted to DM and Science -- should appear before the end of the year.

April 2015:

12/04/15: I have now finished a re-write of Essay Five: Why Motion Isn't Contradictory .

I have added just under 4000 words of new material, making the Essay approximately 6% longer. I have clarified the argument, and corrected several mistakes and typos.

December 2014:

31/12/14: I have just finished re-writing Essay Seven Part Three: Why Dialectical Materialism Can't Explain Change .

I have made the argument clearer and added about 3000 words of new material, making the Essay approximately 7% longer.

20/12/14: A few years ago (and long before their disastrous handling of rape allegations made against a former leading member of the UK-SWP) I wrote a letter to Socialist Worker about, would you believe, Gödel's theorem . I made the point that the results of that theorem should only be accepted by Platonists.

They chose not to publish it.

Since then, I have been regularly adding new material to a series of addendums to that letter. I have now added the latest batch of new material (which largely relates to a paper I have just read that was written by a Professor of Mathematics concerning the incoherence of the idea that there are, or could be, infinite sets).

15/11/14: I have now finished a re-write of Essay Five: Motion Isn't Contradictory .

I have added just over 5000 words of new material, making the Essay approximately 7% longer. I have clarified the argument, and corrected several mistakes and typos.

November 2014:

15/11/14: I have just received a copy of Henri Wald 's seriously mis-titled Introduction To Dialectical Logic. I would have obtained this work long ago, but copies on the Internet were far too expensive. However, a few weeks ago, one became available in my price range.

This book is, however, a classic example of how not to introduce a topic, since it is full of technical jargon and seems to have been written by someone who believes that if a complicated and incomprehensible sentence can be substituted for simpler words, then that on its own somehow elevates any thought it attempts to communicate into a superior form of philosophy. This is typical of Traditional Thought in this area, and, as several Essays published at this site show, dialecticians are only too keen to demonstrate how traditional and conservative they are in this respect .

One would have thought that Marx's advice -- that we return to the use of ordinary language and reject the empty abstractions of Traditional Thought -- would have informed Wald's approach ("would have thought", that is, at least in an Introductory text, and one that seeks to advance Marxist theory!).

Be this as it may, Wald has made some attempt to respond to several criticisms I have levelled against this ruling-class import into the workers' movement (clearly without any knowledge of my work, since Wald's book was published long before I began to write these Essays!). That being the case, over the next few months I will be adding (to several of my Essays) a series of rebuttals to Wald's rather weak attempt to defend this indefensible theory [DM].

11/11/2014: I have just finished re-writing Essay Ten Part One -- Dialectical Materialism: Refuted By Practice And History?

I have made numerous small changes, corrected several errors and typos -- as well as adding about 5000 words of new material, making the Essay approximately 10% longer.

October 2014:

3 0/10/2014: I have just finished re-writing an Essay I posted a year ago: Was Wittgenstein A Leftist?

I have made numerous small changes, corrected several errors and typos, and added about 1600 words of new material.

18/10/2014: I have just finished re-writing Essay Three Part Two -- Abstractionism -- 'Science' On The Cheap

Nearly 5,000 words of new material have been added (making the Essay approximately 7% longer), several errors and typos have been corrected, and the argument has been clarified throughout.

September 2014:

06/09/2014: I have just finished re-writing Essay Eleven Part One -- The 'Totality': WTF Is It?

I have added just over 10,000 words of new material (making the Essay approximately 10% longer), corrected several errors and typos, and clarified the argument considerably.

August 2014:

01/08/2014: I have just finished re-writing Essay Thirteen Part Three -- ' Mind', Language, And 'Cognition; Voloshinov (And Several Others) Debunked

I have added over 13,000 words of new material (making the Essay approximately 7% longer), corrected several errors and typos, and clarified the argument.

May 2014:

24/05/2014: I have just finished re-writing Essay Three Part One -- How Abstractionism Undermines Language And Science .

I have added just under 21,000 words of new material (making it approximately 28% longer), corrected several errors and typos, and have made the argument much clearer.

April 2014:

03/04/2014: I have just finished re-writing Essay Eleven Part One -- The 'Totality': WTF Is It?

I have added about 6500 words of new material (making it approximately 7% longer), corrected several errors and typos, and have made the argument much clearer.

March 2014:

23/03/2014: A new book by a friend of mine has just been published:

Here is the blurb from the publishers website:

"Five years into capitalism's deepest crisis, which has led to cuts and economic pain across the world, Against Austerity addresses a puzzling aspect of the current conjuncture: why are the rich still getting away with it? Why is protest so ephemeral? Why does the left appear to be marginal to political life?



"In an analysis which challenges our understanding of capitalism, class and ideology, Richard Seymour shows how 'austerity' is just one part of a wider elite plan to radically re-engineer society and everyday life in the interests of profit, consumerism and speculative finance.



"But Against Austerity is not a gospel of despair. Seymour argues that once we turn to face the headwinds of this new reality, dispensing with reassuring dogmas, we can forge new collective resistance and alternatives to the current system. Following Brecht, Against Austerity argues that the good old things are over, it's time to confront the bad new ones."

January 2014:

20/01/14: I have just begun work on a new addition to this site: Essay Twelve Part Four -- Dialectical Materialism And Linguistic Idealism. Is Nature 'Rational'?

This Essay continues from where Essays Three Part One and Twelve Part One left off and examines the 'world-view' DM-theorists inherited from Mystical Christianity and Hermetic Philosophy , via Hegel (upside down or 'the right way up') -- i.e., that 'reality' not only has a 'rational' structure, humans beings (in the shape of DM-theorists) can comprehend it.

It should be ready to publish by Easter.

18/01/14: A supporter of this site has just started a new thread over at RevLeft -- A Beginners Guide To Anti-Dialectics .

17/01/14: I have just re-written Essay One -- Why I Began This Project -- to take account of the recent implosion of the UK-SWP.

I have corrected several errors and typos, and clarified the argument. The Essay is now just over 2000 words (or approximately 10%) longer.

02/01/14: I have now finished the Essay mentioned below -- Essay Seven Part Three: Why Dialectical Materialism Can't Explain Change .

December 2013

28/12/13: I am at the moment putting the final touches to a new Essay (which is in fact a complete re-write of material drawn from several other Essays): Essay Seven Part Three -- Why Dialectical Materialism Can't Explain Change .

I am posting the updates as they are being written, but I hope to have the Essay finished before the end of next week.

October 2013

28/10:13: The North Star magazine has just published an Interview with me, and an article of mine: Wittgenstein -- Radical Or Conservative Mystic?

However, if you are using Internet Explorer 10, you might find some of the links I have used in both of the above won't work properly unless you switch to 'Compatibility View' (in the Tools Menu).

These two items unfortunately also contain a few rather annoying typos (and bad links); these will be corrected and the final versions will appear here at a later date.

September 2013

27/09/13: I have just re-written Essay Ten Part One -- Practice And History Refute Dialectics .

Approximately 1,500 words of new material has been added (thus making the Essay just over 3% longer). I have also corrected several errors and typos, and clarified the argument.

17/09/13: I have just re-written Essay Nine Part One -- Why Workers Will Always Ignore 'Materialist Dialectics' .

Approximately 3,000 words of new material have been added (thus making the Essay just over 6% longer). I have also corrected several errors and typos, and clarified the argument.

12/09/13: I have just re-written Essay Five -- Motion Isn't Contradictory .

I have added approximately 3,500 words of new material (thus making the Essay nearly 6% longer), corrected several errors and typos. I have also clarified the argument.

09/09/13: I have just written a reply to a comrade who criticised my Essay on Wittgenstein -- Hit The Bottle .

04/09/13: I have also republished John Moran's path-breaking New Left Review article -- Wittgenstein And Russia -- originally published in May-June 1972.

03/09/13: I have just finished and posted my new Essay -- Was Wittgenstein A Leftist?

This Essay contains original research into the links between Hegel, Marx, Engels, and Wittgenstein's work not spotted before by anyone, including myself.

In the Introduction and Conclusion I also explain my motivation for writing this Essay and why this isn't just an academic exercise.

August 2013

08/08/13: I am putting the finishing touches to a new Essay -- Was Wittgenstein A Leftist?

It should be ready to post a few weeks.

June 2013

01/06/13: I have just finished the re-write of two more Introductory Essays: the Summary of Essay Twelve Part One -- Why All Philosophical Theories, Including Dialectical Materialism, Are Nonsensical ; and the Summary of Essay Thirteen Part One -- Lenin's Disappearing Definition Of Matter .

May 2013

28/05/13: At the request of one or two comrades who are interested in my ideas, I have responded to a new batch of critics of my ideas over at RevLeft .

This new Essay is called Dialectical Confusion 2 .

20/05/13: I have just re-written Essay Two -- Dialectics -- Imposed On Reality, Not Read From It .

I have added about 4,500 words of new material, clarified the argument and corrected several typos and errors.

I have also re-written the Introductory Essay -- Why All Philosophical Theories Are Non-Sensical -- correcting a few errors and, I hope, making the argument much clearer.

This essay shouldn't be confused with the one mentioned below. In fact, it's a summary of the Essay below! A summary of a summary!

13/05/13: I am in the process of re-writing each of the Summary Essays .

As of this week, I have finished all of them up to and including the Summary Of Essay Twelve Part One -- Why All Philosophical Theories, Including Dialectical Materialism, Are Non-sensical .

After that, I plan to start work on Essay Twelve Part Four -- Linguistic Idealism: Is Nature Rational?