DIALECTIC MATERIALISM

 

 

Nietzsche's dialectic materialism is based on the postulate that everything in this world exists in pairs that oppose each other, like positive and negative electricity, day and night, rich and poor, etc.  Thus, the rich nations exist and exploit the poor and weak nations.  The interests of the workers are in direct contrast to the interest of the owners.  Therefore, workers and capitalists are forever enemies locked in the battle for the correct division of the economic pie.  Nietzsche stated that there are two opposing forces that must somehow fight against each other like hot and cold, oppressor and oppressed.

 

This theory emphasizes the opposition of forces which are actually the dual of each other.  In other words, the material would follow the principles of duality and that duals are forever enemies.  Must they be so?

 

When God applied the first principle of duality, presence and absence of God, and then divided his attributes to Will Power and Intelligence, the two fused to create Love.  This Love is the one that will bind the natural opposition brought about by the principle of duality.  One has a left and right leg.  Just imagine if they are in constant opposition.  The fellow cannot move.  The left might go forward whereas the right might go backward.  Love of self, the energy that promotes the preservation of the species, will have to exist to suppress any direct conflict between parts of the individual.

 

Let us consider a family with a brother and sister.  By dialectic materialism, you can deduce that the interest of the brother will be in direct contrast with that of the sister.  If the brother existed alone, then he would get everything.  Or the sister for that matter.  So they will be natural enemies fighting for parental attention. But once they learn brotherly or sisterly love, harmony will set in. There is no need for fighting, they will soon discover.

 

Let us consider hot and cold temperature.  After going out in a hot weather, does not one feel heavenly when he enters an air-conditioned room?

 

Let us then consider the supposed natural enmity between workers and capitalists; that capitalists make profit out of the sweat of workers.  But if that is so, why not eliminate the capitalists and let the workers put up their own companies?  But can many do it?  No. Therefore, the function of the capitalist is a necessity.  Nietzsche missed something.  He failed to apply the principle of Love, that is to consider not only one's self-interest but the interest of others as well, and then the interests of both parties. You can then form a happy partnership as what is happening in Japan.  The Japanese, contrary to Nietzsche's philosophy, believe that their mutual interest lies in the balancing of the needs of both management and workers.  See how much progress they have achieved.

 

Communism, whose philosophy emanates from dialectic materialism, believes that each citizen should contribute according to his ability, and each will share according to his need.  The problem is that individuals are different in physical as well as spiritual development.  Persons have differing needs.  They have different abilities.  And worse, they have diverse will power such that one has the capacity to work harder.  Others just want to loaf around.  So it is not being realistic.  To further illustrate:  if ten men hunted for a wild pig, cooked it, and afterwards divided them equally, somehow not everyone will be equally satisfied. First in hunting the pig, some of the ten probably only pretended to be hunting but in fact did not exert much effort.  So it would not be fair.  Then, when divided equally, the one receiving the leg might complain.  Even in the eating itself, the greedy might not be satisfied.  But others might be full and satisfied.

 

Therefore, communism misses something.  It is based on the wrong principle that opposites are always in direct conflict.  It forgot that with Love the opposites can work together for the common interest.  The equality it seeks is not realistic because of the different stages of material and spiritual development of men.   Communism also postulates the existence of material things and non-existence of the spirit world because such cannot be proven.  When you cannot prove something exists, that does not mean that something is non-existent?  You cannot prove that there is a parallel universe; it does not follow that there is really no such level of existence.  Communism cannot prove the existence of God so it believes that there is no God, that heaven is right here and man can function in it, that religion is the opiate of the people and can lull them into forgetting to. complain about their oppression.

 

Communism is a pessimistic view of man. It believes that men from different classes will always clash, their interest being in contrast all the time, that members of the same class will always try to protect their class interest.  It totally negates the principle of Love.  The seeming contrast is actually the absence of Love. And man to leave the gravity of Earth has to learn the lessons of all aspects of Love, of real Love for humanity.

 

Communism negates the principle of spiritual evolution.  It looks at man as an ordinary animal who will be happy once you divide the fruits of common labor equally.  After working hard, when death comes, what then?

 

The saving grace of communism is its emphasis on the leaders’ having to work and sacrifice for the common man.  This is brotherly Love.  This is applying God's command of loving thy neighbor.  But their idea of loving their neighbor is that of simply apportioning the economic pie equally.

 

In brief, communism's objective is myopic.  It centers on the material needs of man.  Its philosophy is inadequate because it postulates a principle of duality that opposites exist in perpetual opposition to each other.  It does not appreciate that God created Love for the opposites to balance and work together.  Communism accepts only the existence of material world and rejects the spiritual world which it cannot prove.  Had it exerted enough effort, it would have stumbled upon the certain proof of the existence of the spiritual world.

 

Communism totally does not appreciate the different stages of development of man, material and spiritual, such that man's level of satisfaction will be different.  Being so, mere physical equal division of the economic pie will not give them satisfaction.  In trying to form a classless society, it only succeeds in forming two classes: party members and non-members.  When the communists succeeded in bringing down the Russian elite, they replaced it with another.  So in effect the dream of a classless society is impossible to attain.

 

The leaders profess Love of their neighbor.  This is not enough.  That Love has to evolve into divine Love.  Or else it will simply be a love for material things for everybody to partake.

Communism cannot answer: "If one dies; what then?  Is it the end of his consciousness?"  For the leader who is socially advanced, this you may ask: "After sacrificing so much for his fellowmen, is nothingness the reward of his efforts?"