What is the Hegelian Dialectic?

Marx was inherently correct in identifying class struggle as the ultimate social conflict. Given the specific conditions of the time, he properly described the groups who used the power of capital and state to collude and conspire to prevent competition.

However, his (incorrect) solution was to abolish private ownership of property & productive assets, not realizing that the true danger to freedom & liberty are the same kinds of power driven people regardless of specific environment.

The danger with trying to use Marx's observations of a capital-labor division - which was true at the time - as an attempt to discredit his overall theories is to ignore what is actually currently happening in the US & West.

The solution to these threats is always, always de-centralization. It's why the framers & founding documents are genius. It's what's meant when Trump says "drain the swamp".

All of our economic, social & cultural problems can be traced back to multiple levels of cartel actions exercised among uni-party cronies. Smash the cartels, destroy their ability to collude. Making corruption too expensive (via criminal penalties) to be attractive.

By the time you get down to local issues like school boards, the lack of financing and/or political favor available for shenanigans all of a sudden forces everyone to miraculously act like normal, functioning, rational adults.

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