Dialectical Materialism vs. "The New Physics"

by Mike Gimbel

As motion is added to human evolution, change takes place. What motion am I referring to? The fundamental cause of changes in human history, i.e., the addition of motion which causes change, is the development of the productive forces. The development of early farming technology led to the defeat of the primitive communism of early tribal societies by the introduction of the system of slavery which was able to produce more product than was needed for basic survival. Class society, slave owners and slave workers, was born out of this first surplus from the new technology of its day. Slavery was overthrown by the feudal mode of production and the feudal mode of production was overthrown by the capitalist mode of production. Each overthrown mode of production was superseded by a higher and more efficient, form of production. Today, in this current economic crisis, human society faces a similar “escape velocity” situation where the capitalist mode of production has “hit a wall” and cannot take human society forward.