Marla Vijaya kumar
I’d say we Marxists , dialectical materialists , Frederick Engels of the 19th
Century , say the opposite of what you say, no ? :
“ The problem itself has a very simple solution. Eternity in time, infinity in
space, signify from the start, and in the simple meaning of the words, that
there is no end in any direction neither forwards nor backwards, upwards or
downwards, to the right or to the left. This infinity is something quite
different from that of an infinite series, for the latter always starts from
one, with a first term. The inapplicability of this idea of series to our
object becomes clear directly we apply it to space. The infinite series,
transferred to the sphere of space, is a line drawn from a definite point in a
definite direction to infinity. Is the infinity of space expressed in this even
in the remotest way? On the contrary, the idea of spatial dimensions involves
six lines drawn from this one point in three opposite directions, and
consequently we would have six of these dimensions. Kant saw this so clearly
that he transferred his numerical series only indirectly, in a roundabout way,
to the space relations of the world. Herr Dühring, on the other hand, compels
us to accept six dimensions in space, and immediately afterwards can find no
words to express his indignation at the mathematical mysticism of Gauss, who
would not rest content with the usual three dimensions of space [37]{See D. Ph.
67-68}.
As applied to time, the line or series of units infinite in both directions has
a certain figurative meaning. But if we think of time as a series counted from
oneforward, or as a line starting from a definite point, we imply in advance
that time has a beginning: we put forward as a premise precisely what we are to
prove. We give the infinity of time a one-sided, halved character; but a
one-sided, halved infinity is also a contradiction in itself, the exact
opposite of an “infinity conceived without contradiction”. We can only get past
this contradiction if we assume that the one from which we begin to count the
series, the point from which we proceed to measure the line is any one in the
series, that it is any one of the points in the line, and that it is a matter
of indifference to the line or to the series where we place this one or this
point.”
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1877/anti-duhring/ch03.htm
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