True Communism is Not Evil

The fundamental problem with communism is the use of historical dialectic within a solely materialistic framework. Hegelian logic involves contradictions, particularly in the use of negating the negation. Western logic holds that there is nothing that does not follow from a contradiction. Therefore Hegelian logic that tolerates thesis antithesis synthesis, and the negating of the negation must be inconsistent. Marxism according to this view is ultimately flawed. The knee-jerk response of logical positivists is to claim that communism is illogical on the basis that Hegelian logic is not logic at all. It is certainly possible that Hegelianism is a model for explaining the semantics of logical statements as an ongoing development of interactions between people their societies and the forces of production, climate and the laws of nature. Logic on this view is there to maintain and truth and provide proofs. Truth in this sense is not conceived naively as correspondence to a state of affairs in the world, but is nevertheless related indeed shaped by the underlying movements of matter. The spiritual world insofar, as there is one, is ultimately a product of the evolutionary refinement of the movements of matter. But there is no room for a real dichotomy between the material world as we perceive it and the spiritual. Our concepts within a human society, be they of science, morals, psychology or economics, get shaped by the material substrate, pure matter. All exist as a consequence of the historical interaction between the individual, society and physical perturbations of the material substrate. In so far as there are any categorical moral truths then the most obvious one is resistance to the inevitable march of history. History shapes our very concepts. Hegelianism is not opposed to logic even if it appears so at first. What is abandoned is the notion that truths are immutable, that concepts remain the same. On a Hegelian view concepts like humans and societies become redundant. Hegel's philosophy is very neat not, anti-religious, anti-moral but indeed as much about the spirit as it is the material, the spiritual arises from the material. However, spiritual truths are contingent upon the physical truths as much as the other way round, There is, however, a problem for Hegel. How does one get one's ontology and epistemology right? How does one know that a concept has had its day or is the way forward. For example, Hegel is blamed by some for being an originator of racism. While he uses the notion to refer to nations, some argue that he is referring to race. Importantly under Hegelian philosophy epistemology is eradicated ontology becomes primary. He certainly opens a conceptual space where very different ideologies may arise. If you include race within science then since it is in some sense a new concept, it may well become natural so see race as a driving force of history, other races as enemies. History is open to many interpretations. In citing the means of production as a core element together within the notion of history, Communists cite this as the key momentum behind social change. Since we are in a bourgeois v proletarian stage, and this stage is a contradictory stage, it is not sustainable the direction of history must be to be me moving out of it. Given this it is a betrayal not to oppose the bourgeoisie who seek to maintain the status quo and a duty to history to support the proletariat as the truly productive element of global society. Since this duty to forward the march of history it should also oppose any sentimentality in this endeavor. A person should not be afraid to wage war or revolution in the development of global revolution against the bourgeoisie. I take this to be the communist position and suggest that it is arbitrary and evil.