Reference to my previous post : https://incels.is/threads/marxism-1-historical-materialism.813089/
In oversimplified terms, dialectic is the concept wherein when you analyse something you may come across a binary, i.e. two things which may be concepts, ideas, material observations or something else which are in direct logical contradiction with each other because they negate each other. (Kind of like how "this apple is red" and "this apple is not red" cannot be true at the same time.) And because of this contradiction their coexistence is paradoxical. Yet they co-exist. This situation ultimately calls for something new, a different lens of looking at things or a paradigm shift, which would result in the reconciliation of the contradiction making the co-existence of the binaries plausible.
For example- the concepts of freedom and laws directly contradict each other. It's a fact that people have freedom to do whatever they want. Society can give consequences after the fact but no one can actually stop you. And most people are aware of this on some level. But it's also true that we follow laws imposed on us by figures whom we believe to be our authorities (say a King) and hence, despite having the capability to exercise complete free will and the knowledge of that capability, we can't because of our belief in authority.
This obvious contradiction is then reconciled when man becomes self governing. This means that instead of letting laws be imposed by an outside authority (and overstepping on his freedom), the man lays down his own laws, and chooses to follow them through his own free will. And thus the contradiction between freedom and laws is reconciled. This new man transforms from a "subject" to a "citizen". And in the real world this mind shift leads to the abolition of monarchies and establishment of republics/democracies.
In oversimplified terms, dialectic is the concept wherein when you analyse something you may come across a binary, i.e. two things which may be concepts, ideas, material observations or something else which are in direct logical contradiction with each other because they negate each other. (Kind of like how "this apple is red" and "this apple is not red" cannot be true at the same time.) And because of this contradiction their coexistence is paradoxical. Yet they co-exist. This situation ultimately calls for something new, a different lens of looking at things or a paradigm shift, which would result in the reconciliation of the contradiction making the co-existence of the binaries plausible.
For example- the concepts of freedom and laws directly contradict each other. It's a fact that people have freedom to do whatever they want. Society can give consequences after the fact but no one can actually stop you. And most people are aware of this on some level. But it's also true that we follow laws imposed on us by figures whom we believe to be our authorities (say a King) and hence, despite having the capability to exercise complete free will and the knowledge of that capability, we can't because of our belief in authority.
This obvious contradiction is then reconciled when man becomes self governing. This means that instead of letting laws be imposed by an outside authority (and overstepping on his freedom), the man lays down his own laws, and chooses to follow them through his own free will. And thus the contradiction between freedom and laws is reconciled. This new man transforms from a "subject" to a "citizen". And in the real world this mind shift leads to the abolition of monarchies and establishment of republics/democracies.
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