*Thank you for this Comrade Roy, I looked at your equations, and I will look again to internalize the gist.*
*We Pan-Africanists should also look at the works of **Andrei Kolmogorov. **He was a Mathematician and pillar of both the Soviet Academy of Sciences and the Communist Party of the USSR. He has publications on some Mathematised aspects of dialectical materialism. * *Still, I am still in confusion as to how one can make absolute assertions using dialectical materialism in light of, say, Godel's Incompleteness Theorems **(Doesn't our being located within the Universe render u**ltimate truth unprovable**?). Then there is the Continuum hypothessis, another teaser from Number Theory, again seemingly contrary to dialectics. OR the Schrodinger's Cat of Quantum Mechanics, a cat that makes nonsense of dialectical materialism (neither dead nor alive), OR a Big Bang that is supposed to originate from a "point"; A point in space-time. A space-time that the Big Bang itself is supposed to spawn. * *Even the "Cosmological Inflation", of Allan Guth, **Andrei Linde, John Wheeler etc............... I suspect, **would be laughed out of the Departments of "The History and Philosophy of Science", as unbridled idealism. Many times we and Comrades debate these issues, for clarity! Mitayo Potosi* On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 10:30 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > We all need to redouble our efforts to build the broadest possible unity > among our peoples across the world. One thing is certain, it will not > happen if we do not have a reasonable plan that we can agree on and try > our best do implement. Altough in this short ad lib dialog I focus on > sisters, it is because the African women are critical to our struggle and > culture, and as they achieve their rightful place in human society, the > men will finally understand how to actually be a man and stop acting in a > manner that indicates a high degree of enemy "code" in their human > "programs" > and you know what they say in computer programming, gigo that is "garbage > in garbage out" ...what Bobby Wright talked about as mentacide and Min > Farrakhan refers to when he talks about the system of mis-education we > get us euivalent to a literal "killing field" > > Kwame Ture once wrote that real African academia is one which is > immersed wholly in our liberation struggle...all of us know that this > requires a scientific approach, particularly in this steadily increasing > fast paced scientific-technological global system which history, the bad > and the good, has givenus. We MUST use this for our benefit, for we allknow > how many and how powerful > are those who use it against us. > > So, here goes.... > > "The utility of SCIENTIFIC knowledge is judged according to the degree to > which it permits understanding of past events and prediction and control > of future events. Description of event, being a historical record of > past experience, cannot be used directly for future predictions and > control. Rather, expectations of future events are generated within a logic > system consisting of two or more abstract variables and the rules for > specifying their interdependence. This logical system is called amodel." > preface, > "Mathematics in the Behaviorial and Social Sciences" by John W. Bishir > and Donald Drewes > > The purpose of models is as the authors wrote "facilitate an initutitive > understanding of the mathematical concepts that govern useful techniques > in the analysis of social and behaviorial problems." (cited from the above > preface also) > > Mathematical, statistical and related use of history are all critical to > our goals. By goals I mean those general objective - oriented functions > and utilty that our people have collectively, even if largely informally, > formulated as the methods, tools, processes for the work we have to do to > achieve our goals for united action from constantly evolving positive > social relationship as the basis of Pan-African unity. (That was a long > one granted but I thought it should be said without taking a digital > breath...to > emphasize the unity of the concepts in the statement) > > We need to be more scientific in achieving greater clarity and skills > for use in the building of the poltical-social-economic unity required > for our long awaited renaissance and redemption. This is something that > is our sacred duty, that is the holiest of the may holy processes we have > to continued as we inherit it as a critical element of our ancestral > legacy...and which we will SUCCESSFULLY pass on to our future generations. > > Here is an example of using sets, and set operations from Nkrumah: > > Hence, in order that socialism should be applicable in a country, the > country must be liberated; it must enjoy unity; it must embrace > philosophical materialism; it must have a specific philosophical > consciencism holding its general nature in common, but expressing its > individuality through the actual material conditions of the territory for > which it is formulated, and through the experience and consciousness of the > people of that territory; it must apply suitable and adequate dialectical > moments, expressed through positive action, wielded through a mass party. > In order to liberate a territory, an increase of positive action over > negative action must be obtained by the introduction of a dialectical > moment. This dialectical moment can be introduced by joining together the > forces of positive action in one mass political party, educating the > people, explaining to them the evil nature of colonialism, that is, > analyzing their experience and giving them a greater awareness of this > experience through workers' sections, farmers' sections, youth sections, > women's sections, newspapers and other implements of party organization. To > unite the liberated territory, the mass political party must be further > developed to the size of a popular movement. The policies of development > then need to accord with the theses of philosophical materialism, and they > must be subject to philosophical consciencism, showing a sensitivity to the > material conditions and experience of the people. > * *The analytic form of (xvi) - (xix) reveals that socialism cannot be > dogmatic in its *specific *provisions, for it contains constant and > variable elements. In principle, socialism remains the same and pure; in > application it is realistic and scientific. > Caution is supremely necessary here. A clever and unscrupulous > neocolonialism can pervert and corrupt this relativist aspect of specific > socialism and use it in fact to re-colonize a people. It is essential that > socialism in its specific form should at every point and every level be > justified only by reference to *socialist *general principles. Specific > socialism can only be an *instantiation *of the general formula, no more. > The people should therefore not be betrayed under the guise of relating > socialism to their actual conditions. > At this point, I shall give further elucidation to the concept of > positive action. I have already pointed out that positive action as a lever > towards independence is related to a mass party and the political > education, unity of purpose and action which it can impart to a people. > Positive action as a quantity could therefore vary with people, their > degree of consciousness, and their degree of mobilization for progress. The > people are however not conscious or mobilized apart from the consciousness > and mobilization of individuals. *pa* may therefore be said to be the sum > of the positive action, *Pa*, contained in individuals associated with a > mass organization. Therefore, > (xx)* pa=Pa1.+ Pa2 +. . .* *+ Pak-i +Pak = **å**Pa i... k* > > Similarly, *na *represents the sum of the negative action, *Na*, of* *the > individuals in a society to the extent that it is organize concerted. Hence, > (xxi)* na=Na1.+ Na2 +. . .* *+ Nak-i +Nak = **å**Na i... k* > Thus, both* pa* and* na* are revealed as functions. > Since all the steps taken towards a genuine development of a liberated > territory involve a relation of positive action to negative action, the > index of development, p, may be defined thus: > > (xxii) *P = pa/na* > > As *na *never completely disappears, however closely it approaches 0, p > can never become infinite, but at its peak has the following equivalence: > (xxii) *P = pa/** e na* > *P* is therefore asymptotic towards infinity at its peak. It is > increased by increasing *pa *and decreasing *na*. In practice, however , * > na* is never negligible and *e na *is never attained. > * *But though *e na *is never achieved, the index of development can > rise as *pa *rises and *na* decreases. If this is what is required > according to the equation for the index of development, then it can be > secured by the same leverage as brings about (*pa*ä + *na*æ)0*. *The > intensification of the dialectical moment which produces independence will > raise the index of development. A greater positive action therefore emerges > as the key to development along socialist lines. That is, for socialist > development, the socialist conscience of the people must be enhanced > through education and party activity. The forces of positive action, > political, economic and cultural, need to be mobilized and streamlined for > progress. > This requires an increase in the number of people contributing to > positive action and an improvement in the quality of their contribution. > This requires a greater space a, achieved through positive unity as > defined in formula (xiii), and it creates an optimum zone of self-induced > development. > I should like at this point to revert to a general feature of > philosophical consciencism. Philosophical consciencism is a general > philosophy which admits of application to any country. But it is especially > applicable to colonies and newly independent and developing countries. In > the case of Africa, by means of the foregoing set theoretic methods the > necessity of a union of independent African states is established, a union > integrated by socialism, without which our hard-won independence may yet be > perverted and negated by a new colonialism. > > Nkrumah, Consciencism > > This short hand explanation of the use of historical and social, > economic and related data, as a collective tool for rennaisance and > redemption, > as it represents cummulative quantities of the power of the evil and the > power of the good, and then points to how to assure that the good "set" of > human beings, the oppressed and exploited Africans, are victorious over e > vil. > > You can convey larger amounts of information using these methods > provided that all those who read the messages understands the particular > mathematical grammar, symbols and utility, coupled with the statitstical > constructs which must be added to the purely aspects. > > One example of how you could use it, take all the data and stats you can > find on the plight of African women in the world give it the proper > narrative content, proper graphic content (that is images, but also graphics > such as pie, bar and other kinds of charts, diagrams of various types > and so on to emphasize the relevant information of the amassed data and > stats. Then you use this as a call for the Unity of the African Woman in > the context of their absolutely indispensable role as the Mother of the > Civilization and Queen of our historical and philosphical realm. > > With a nation of Candace-Nehandas as the soul and heart of our nation > redemption is assured. We must only have confidence in each other. > > Unity now! > > > Roy >
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