On Patricide and Filicide
Clarifying the dialectical method
Why Dialectics?
Simple to put into words, difficult to put into action. Navigating the coming rupture requires a method that can account for contradictory systems in motion. The United States and China are at a crossroads. Neither can recover their pre-2016 trajectories, and both face existential threats as they attempt to pivot. This method serves to illuminate these contradictions, arming cadres of historical actors so that they may intervene not reactively, but with structural clarity and discipline.
Before the method can be meaningfully applied, one must understand what it excludes. Dialectics is not a philosophy of fairness, justice, or outrage. It is a method for understanding motion regardless of who suffers from it. There is no room in the dialectical method for emotion, sentimentality, or moral grandstanding—except as strategy. Just as biologists coldly witness and report animals rape and cannibalize members of their own species, so t…
