Nature of Human Brain Work: An Introduction to Dialectics

Called by Marx "The Philosopher of Socialism", Joseph Dietzgen was a pioneer of dialectical materialism and a fundamental influence on anarchist and socialist thought whom we would do well not to forget.

Dietzgen examines what we do when we think. He discovered that thinking is a process involving two opposing processes: generalization, and specialization. All thought is therefore a dialectical process. Our knowledge is inherently limited however, which makes truth relative and the seeking o...