Understanding the Dialectic (New Discourses)

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The presenter in this video attempts to explain what dialectics means, but considers almost every contradiction as a dialectical relationship. This is the major problem with postmodernism. For any contradiction to be a dialectical phenomenon, the contradiction must be part of the natural evolutionary process of society, class contradiction, or struggle, for example. Contradictions among racial groups are social constructs, not part of society’s evolutionary processes, so they are not dialectical.

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