• Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      10
      ·
      edit-2
      2 days ago

      Dialectical materialism. I look at material reality, analyze it within context and as it changes over time, where it came from and where it’s headed. I am certainly confident in my research, as I’ve done extensive reading on the subject. Your rejection of facts is what points at dogmatism.

      • Yliaster@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        edit-2
        2 days ago

        If my criticisms of your reasoning/the facts you provided appears as dogmatism to you, that is not my concern.

        • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          11
          ·
          2 days ago

          You aren’t critiquing anything, you’re using non-sequitors and metaphysics to try to dodge making actual points, to cover for your dogmatism and chauvanism.

            • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              10
              ·
              2 days ago

              I bet you would, but as long as you repeat common red-scare myths and insist on viewing history as something metaphysical and not something that progresses over time, you aren’t going to be able to get closer to the truth.

              • Yliaster@lemmy.world
                link
                fedilink
                arrow-up
                1
                ·
                2 days ago

                I never said history was metaphysical or wasn’t something that progresses. As long as you keep reading things into my statements you’re going to keep responding to arguments I never made.

                • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
                  link
                  fedilink
                  arrow-up
                  8
                  ·
                  2 days ago

                  It’s not a direct statement you’ve made, just your insistence on looking at snapshots in time instead of graphs and trajectories. When I suggested you look at what came before, you rejected it, saying you only care about the here and now. This is metaphysics, erasing history from analysis.

                  • Yliaster@lemmy.world
                    link
                    fedilink
                    arrow-up
                    1
                    ·
                    edit-2
                    2 days ago

                    The direct statements I’ve made are directly against that. You’re arguing in bad faith if you’re going to put words in my mouth for me and insist I said what I didn’t.

                    I can have a discussion about the present without focusing on the past or future. Saying that it is metaphysics is a non-sequitur. Not everything has to be viewed historically.

                    What you’re doing is you’re using dialectical materialism as a veneer to deflect criticism here.