Dialectical materialism teaches us that the external world (matter) is reflected by our brains through our five senses- sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch. What is first perceived through the five senses is “perceptual knowledge.” When enough perceptual knowledge has accumulated in our brains, perceptual knowledge leaps to “conceptual knowledge” …
Part I All matter possesses the property of reflection, i.e., the ability to react and reconstruct itself internally under external influences. Therefore reflection must always, and can only, take place between two or more bodies interacting on one another. For example, as a result of the chemical composition of iron, …
In June of 2005 California began opening the 5,000 man Kern Valley State Prison in Delano, the third most recent prison in the state’s prison expansion boom. In January of 2006, when the prison is expected to be fully operating, prison officials boast that it will be the first maximum …
Greetings and my best to you. I read your piece, “Huey P. Newton – revisited.” I found it extremely interesting although at this point the depth of my knowledge of Newton’s writings is still insufficiently shallow, so I’ll limit myself to those issues you raised. Newton and those around him …