New Cities/New Soviets

December 18, 2004

Lenin on dialectics

"Human knowledge is not (or does not follow) a straight line, but a curve, which endlessly approximates a series of circles, a spiral. Any fragment, segment, section of this curve can be transformed (transformed one-sidedly) into an independent, complete straight line, which then (if one does not see the wood for the trees) leads into the quagmire, into clerical obscurantism (where it is anchored by the class interests of the ruling classes). Rectilinearity and one-sidedness, woodenness and petrification, subjectivism and subjective blindness -- voila the epistemological roots of idealism. And clerical obscurantism (=philosophical idealism), of course, has epistemological roots, it is not groundless; it is a sterile flower undoubtedly, but a sterile flower that grows on the living tree of living, fertile, genuine, powerful, omnipotent, objective, absolute human knowledge."


Lenin, "On the Question of Dialectics" 1915

Posted by Sam at December 18, 2004 11:41 AM

nice geometry

simple irregular
left right ossi
moving in third d
along a time line = this spiral

and "feels " like nowhere-ville's circles

Posted by: pinky at December 18, 2004 01:18 PM

the "mind"
adhers by a series of linear strokes
on a dice roll
picking from
a set of deflection angles
that look like a jumping needle

flicking in quanta
from 90 degrees center to 0 degrees right
or 90 to 180 left then pop pop
like a sail boat tacking to catch the gusts

Posted by: meat me at December 18, 2004 01:25 PM

the sterility is in "staying the course "

one goes dead in the water
subject to currents alone
not the winds of change

Posted by: pinky at December 18, 2004 01:28 PM

ah you anticipate me
see next post

very gratifying
that we
share a brainwave
here

Posted by: sam at December 21, 2004 09:09 AM

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