Which is why I've never used more than once or twice in my life, even though in the last 5 years I feel I'm beginning to get a grip on it.
I particularly dislike arguments which _begin_, "X is not dialectical." If "Not dialectical" is to be used at all it should only be in the last paragraph, perhaps even the last clause, of an argument. The same goes (if a Marxist meaning is intended) for "Historical" and "Not Historical," particularly the latter. Engels calls attention to the fact that one of the few times in _Capital_ that Marx uses "dialectics" he does so _only_ after he has completed a historical argument. That is, in the particular case, Marx uses the term only after it was not really necessary (for the argument) to use it. Carrol ^^^^^^^^ Yes, it can be used in jokes too. Hegel asserted that comedic logic is superior to grandeloquent logic. For direct published usage of the term "dialectics" we must look more to Engels than Marx. Charles
