Re: The 'formalising' of dialectics.

And wasn't Hegel, to summarize him in a very vulgar way, an early,
albeit formalistic and idealized, exponent of the theory of progress
that developed in the 19th Century, that humanity has progressed
through a series of stages up a staircase so to speak, in his view
ideologically e.g. that in their day the Protestants were better than
the Catholics etc etc and so now the commies over the capitalists etc
etc., the latter supposition probably being more loaded today than the
former ironically. truisms that can become quite hoary when little
inferior humans get considered so much dispensable flotsam and jetsam
to these grand schemes.