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RE: Dialectics, an updated guide
Very interesting, @theironfelix. I'm glad that you started this, using your knowledge to help others walking through Plato's cave, toward the light.
I would add that in the classic philosophy conception, especially the Socratic one, the dialectic method has a maieutic function. Hence it's purpose is not just a struggle of ideas but the seek for a truth through a specific process implying that "struggle" (perhaps, not even a struggle but a push from the counterpart). It's very much Freudian (rectius, Freud is very much Socratic). I would have also enjoyed some more focus on the Marxist class struggle concept but I have to say that overall you did an impressive work! Keep it up, I hope that your work receives its due recognition.
UwU ~ Thanks for reading and thanks for the extra philosophizing! I was debating on adding the maieutic function but decided that it would be a whole shitshow about talking Capital T Truth, True Justified Belief, the Skeptics (Pyrrho, Academic and Dogmato-Skeptics or deny everything while assuming that nothing can be explained) and all that. Regardless, I should’ve probably displaced that to GWF Hegel at the very least and explained how he kept continuity with Antiquity by mentioning the End of History and how that parallels the search for the Truth. Well people can read the comments and see the add-ons to the post already! (I probably should add Jacques Lacan here as he did technically use Dialectics and was definitely influenced by Hegel, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels by extension.)