The Ghost in the Machine

We live in a polarized, atomized society where any reflections on our adversaries positions lead to ostracism, visceral attacks, and demonization of “the other”. Both poles on the modern American political continuum accuse each other, on a daily basis, of bringing America one step closer to dictatorship, be it Marxist or Fascist. Yet both sides miss an essential point: to understand the architecture of modern totalitarianism, one must examine its foundational mythos: dialectical materialism. As popularized by Friedrich Engels and codified by Marxist-Leninist orthodoxy, this worldview reduces reality to matter in motion, driven forward not by…