There is a degree of sexual dimorphism in human beings, but not very much as compared with other species. Such dimorphism as there is must have some functional basis to have evolved in the first place. We homosexuals, indeed, would be at a loss without it.
But that is very different from asserting as Charles apparently attempts to do--with many others it would seem--that a "natural" absolute gender binary dialectic is required in political economy. Why not admit simply that there is no dialectic in nature--that when we descend into the macro and micro worlds, things are different--and when we reach the quantum level they become incomprehensible? This restricts dialectic to the human sphere, but does not eliminate it. We die, and we know of nothing in the micro world that answers or responds to that or transforms it through the magic of synthesis (or whatever the precisely correct Marxist or Hegelian word is) into something we can grasp intuitively if we raise our consciousness sufficiently. OK philosophers--you have your intellectual rigor to attend to and I admire it--but you have your work cut out for you to prove that positive and negative, male and female, etc. etc. are dialectical except when remanufactured into ideology and rhetoric, even if Yin is Yin and Yang is Yang in a poetic sense. In reality, there are as many dialectics as there are dialecticians--all of them absolutely correct and none of them entirely reconcilable. Before becoming Mussolini's ideologue and philosopher, Giovanni Gentile (I am told) before becoming the philosopher and ideologue of Italian fascism, was much admired by Croce and others for his mastery of Hegel. I spent five years in a digression from computer work doing scientific community communications as a contractor for the Space Physics Division of NASA. I worked for an energetic but fundamentally stupid woman, wife of a Republican political appointee, who loved to talk about "questions that have plagued mankind from the beginning of time." I had the opportunity to interview Robert Parker, father of the Parker Solar Probe and discoverer of the solar wind, for a video we were doing, and I asked him what he thought about that. He said he was more concerned about questions that have plagued mankind "since the middle of last week." As far as transsexuality is concerned, I happily declare once more that as far as I am concerned--despite possible intellectual limitations and not AFAIK being a Marxist--Chelsea Manning is an exemplary citizen who has in her way done the world a power of good. That's well beyond the basic requirements of citizenship. She can use any damn bathroom she pleases for all of me, and creepy old JK Rowling will just have to live with it. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#5436): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/5436 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/79587279/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
