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Originally Posted by Sethomas
Isn't it a bit hypocritical to apply historical dialectic to non-collectivist economical systems? The Fichtean system (attributed falsely to Hegel) wouldn't have been taken seriously beyond the 19th Century if not for the association made by Marx between worker/product alienation and thesis.
Sure, if you want to be fun and use archaic philosophy in your thinking, feel free. Just be consistent about it.
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I'm not applying a Marxist or Hegelian dialectic. I'm using the term in the loose sense.
It is true that society makes man, but it is also true that man makes society. It is the interaction of individual forces and the larger societal complex that they comprise which gives way to mans' development.