The dialectic of political decision-making
Political decision-making part 3
When analyzing for political decision making, we use an analogy and borrow from Marx and Engels. We do not know exactly what originated in the brain of Karl Marx and whether Friedrich Engels only wrote it down or also developed it himself.
We adapt the four basic rules of dialectical materialism to our political decision-making theory, from which we will develop a model by thought experiment.
The political action of human beings must be considered as a whole, which has a biological origin in the human brain.
1. The whole is composed of interrelated, interdependent and constantly moving biochemical processes in the human brain.
2. These processes pass through certain levels of consciousness, which can cause certain qualitative changes.
3. The respective change does not result from a harmoniously running process, but from the solution of the conflict of the respective opposites.
The three derived elementary developmental laws of human action.
1. The law "unity and struggle of opposites" can also tell us something about human action and the respective preceding activities in the brain. From the contradictions between two poles, e.g. between conformity and autonomy or between efficiency and opportunity, which are fundamentally inherent in personal and social processes, meaningful decisions for one's own political actions always arise for the individual.
2. The law of "negation of negation" states that in the context of memory and thought processes, neither what is remembered is recalled in its entirety, nor is what is old completely negated, but those aspects that are judged to be useful remain integrated. In addition, each memory content is compared with the current circumstances at recall and thus changed.
3. The law "accumulation of quantities - change into a new quality" describes how the quantitative accumulation of the same and similar memory contents leads to a sudden qualitative change in the political thinking and acting of humans.
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