AlHouthi4President@lemmy.ml to memes@hexbear.netEnglish · 7 days agoFree Palestine & Long live the Islamic Republic of Iranhexbear.netimagemessage-square125linkfedilinkarrow-up1171
arrow-up1171imageFree Palestine & Long live the Islamic Republic of Iranhexbear.netAlHouthi4President@lemmy.ml to memes@hexbear.netEnglish · 7 days agomessage-square125linkfedilink
minus-squarequeermunist she/her@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-27 days agoI guess you could say these things are unified by their internal oppositions - like some kind of unity of opposites.
minus-squareTrying2KnowMyself [they/them, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·7 days agoI think I agree, but I also feel like you’re saying something that’s going over my head.
minus-squarequeermunist she/her@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·7 days agoThe unity of opposites is a basic law of materialist dialectics. Mao’s On Contradiction is helpful for understanding how this works: a thing can not exist without its dialectical opposite and is also defined by its dialectical opposite.
minus-squareoliveoil [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 days agoA missile knows where it is, because it knows where it isn’t.
I guess you could say these things are unified by their internal oppositions - like some kind of unity of opposites.
I think I agree, but I also feel like you’re saying something that’s going over my head.
The unity of opposites is a basic law of materialist dialectics. Mao’s On Contradiction is helpful for understanding how this works: a thing can not exist without its dialectical opposite and is also defined by its dialectical opposite.
A missile knows where it is, because it knows where it isn’t.