0258 So, what am I saying?

Marxist theory_3c constitutes a novel style of scientific inquiry, because the “model_2c” is not mechanical or mathematical (in principle), but can be made to appear so through selective acquisition of observations and measurements of phenomena_1c.

Indeed, the dyadic actuality_2c, {material arrangements [substantiate] human conditions}_2c characterizes theory-driven observations and measurements of phenomena_1c as “scientific”_1c by treating the vocabulary of Marxist theory_3c as a disciplinary language_3c that satisfies the mandates of the positivist intellect.  

Does any of this seem familiar?

0259 That is not all I am saying.  The reason why the above constitution seems reasonable stems from prior success by physicists, chemists and biologists in substituting their mathematical and mechanical models in for the noumenon. Recall that the noumenon belongs to what is (firstness) in the Positivist’s judgment.

0260 Here is a picture.

0261 A slogan attributed to Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) goes like this.  The empirical sciences study phenomena (the observable and measurable facets of the thing itself) and ignore their noumenon (the thing itself).  In other words, phenomena cannot fully objectify their noumenon.

Within a century, scientists find a way around Kant’s slogan.  Successful models may substitute for or overlay the noumenon.  When that happens, the overlaying model can be objectified as its phenomena.  This gives birth to the disciplines of academic laboratory sciences.

0262 What does this mean for Marxist terminology_3c as an empirio-schematic disciplinary language_3c?

Here is a diagram.

The Marxist dyad is {material arrangements [account for] human conditions}_2c.

0263 Marxist theorists_3c profess that a scientific-sounding dyad_2c, overlays the thing itself, civilizational history (what is, Positivist’s judgment), because it_2c is arises from the possibility of ‘scientific interpretations’_1c.

The materialist dyad, {material arrangements [substantiate] human conditions}, can be objectified by phenomena produced by a mechanized civilization.

0264 When the USSR dis-integrates, the declaration_2c is no longer credible, even though it_2c supports a wide variety of critical theories_2c that gain respectability in state-supported academies in the USSA.

0265 USSA?

Recently, the US congress appointed a task group to assess the plausibility that the extra “S” stands for ‘something’.

“Why,” the politicians wonder, “does that extra S appear out of nowhere?  And what is it supposed to mean?”

Meanwhile, the congressional “representatives” ignore the national debt that they have voted into existence.

$38,000,000,000.

0266 So, what are all these ism-ist critical theories_2c doing?

Oh yeah, they are identifying phenomena_1c that objectify their materialist dyad_2c.

0267 What should one call the current configuration of American critical theory?

Besides “hilarious”.

0268 The experts are versed in capitalism and in socialism.

Both styles of expertise produce dyadic models where {material arrangements [substantiate] human conditions}_2c.

Then, they pretend that their models are the thing itself.