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[Jester]

No need to be snide, we are having a civilized conversation, let's keep it that way please.

Right, because you've been a real gentleman in this thread, as always.

Peachy indeed Dialectics is a very useful tool for understanding and analyzing change in society - though I don't consider it the best, or at least not the only tool, for solutions. I recently wrote a paper explaining the origins and historical development of institutionalized racism in America, using dialectical materialism. I found it useful for outlining the development and characteristics of each era of racism, and the material circumstances within each era that legitimized it as a systemic condition and process.

Lovely. But I could write a paper using astrology to outline the zodiacal conditions that govern any given set of historical events. The question is not whether you *can* apply dialectical materialism. The question is whether you *should*.

Darwin's theory has been through the empircal wringer. It survived with its skeleton intact, but altered in many of its details, including critical ones. As for Marx, it looks like it is less tested than applied, more believed than productively challenged, at least in the form you seem to be endorsing.

-Jester