WHY DIALECTICS - WHY NOW

Dialectics has to do with how the ''bigger picture,'' both spatially a nd temporally (past and future), enters into and affects whatever we p erceive directly and immediately. All the categories associated with d ialectical thinking help bring some part of this bigger picture, to wh ich we all belong, into focus. Special attention is given here to how to study the socialist/communist future that lies ''concealed'' inside the capitalist present as a necessary part of the dialectical analysi s of capitalism.