The type of dialectic, which is carried out within a dialogue, used now in 2017, is the Marxist version of the Greek διαλεκτική, or dialectic, before the time of Christ, and re-invented by Hegel. In the Marxist dialectic, that which is established, absolute or of God is under attack; it becomes the anti-thesis in Marxism. In the Marxist dialectic, the Thesis is often attacked by the anti-thesis, and this attack fits in very well with the original goal of Transformational Marxism to "Abolish Culture," that is, to do away with the dominant culture of the West which is in opposition to the Marxist Left - the Family and Biblical Christianity.
The dialectic is a form of deception and the Marxist version of the Hegelian dialectic has been developed into a belief and attitude change procedure, which infiltrated the major institutions,including the churches, in the 20th century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thesis...sis,_synthesis
"Hegel used the "thesis-antithesis-synthesis" idea only once, and he attributed the terminology to Immanuel Kant. The terminology was largely developed by Johann Gottlieb Fichte, also an advocate of the philosophy identified as German idealism. "
"Karl Marx (1818-1883) and Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) adopted and extended the triad, especially in Marx's The Poverty of Philosophy (1847). Here, in Chapter 2, Marx is obsessed by the word "thesis". It can be said to form an important part of the basis for the Marxist theory..."
The Marxist dialectic tends to be dark; it is nasty. A large part of the Marxist dialectic, which you can see now in the conflict between the Leftist media and the Alternative Media, is a constant attempt to discredit and to get the best of those opposing the Left. And these attempts to discredit the opposition to the Left get nasty. The Marxist dialectic is nasty.
Dean Gotcher opened up an understanding about this Marxist form of the dialectic and who, how and when the Marxist dialectic was developed into an attitude and belief changing procedure in America. The Marxist dialectic comes out of the Frankfurt School and out of some of the social engineers or change agents, mostly psychologists and psychiatrists, who never advertised themselves as being Marxists at all.
Dean Gotcher has pointed out that several American change agents followed an ideology similar to that of the Frankfurt School leaders who operated out of our universities. The two best known Frankfurters who were professors at Berkeley and at Brandeis were Theodore W. Adorno and Herbert Marcuse. Gotcher looked at Abraham Maslow, Carl Rogers, Irvin Yalom and Norman O. Brown as the psychology change agents who helped develop the dialectic.
And Gotcher emphasized the role of Kurt Lewin and his Group Dynamics Movement of the forties and fifties in the development of the Marxist dialectic. Kurt Lewin and his student, Leon Festinger, focused on group
cohesiveness and how to increase cohesiveness in small groups. Festinger, Stanley Schachter and Kurt Back, said cohesiveness was “the total field of forces which act on members to
remain in the group." Group cohesiveness as a concept was used in the
Encounter Group Movement of the sixties and seventies because only a cohesive group can exert an
influence upon its individual members. The group facilitator worked to
create cohesiveness and manipulated the group's attitudes and behavior
by use of the dialectic, which he or she also used on targeted
"deviant" individuals in the group. In general, the cohesive group was
used by a facilitator to move individuals with absolute truths and
absolute morality to compromise those absolutes in order to stay in
their relationship to the cohesive group.
After Carl Rogers left the University of Wisconsin for Southern California, he became a major leader of the Encounter Group Movement. The much used term "Facilitator" became part of the Vocabulary of the Marxist dialectic development in the U.S,, though the term "Marxist Dialectic" was never used, and Dean Gotcher is not given much credit for exposing that movement. He is disliked in the Churches, especially in the larger churches.
