Re: The 'formalising' of dialectics.

Well, I find history interesting to read unlike philosophy,
nonetheless it seems that if something has been shown to not work, as
anyone who has struggled with a mechanical problem on one's car or
anything else intuitively knows, then how much validity does it have.
This tool doesn't work etc.  Your political point is well taken only
up to a point.  Personally I would draw whatever political conclusions
are apt, if I haven't already, but wouldn't feel any guilt about it at
all.  I mean how many rrrevolutions have trotskyists or ites led? not
too many.  As a practical matter, I've lived and worked for decades
since the 70s with zero to minimal contact with this mileu, except
outside of cyberspace after 1995-96, so its influence on my political
activity is pretty limited although I consider the time I spent in it
on a fairly full time basis ("I was a teenage trotskyite") to have
been a valuable political apprentice****p.

I would have to say, not only based on my observations through the
media, but my upbringing in a religious boarding school that
creationist do work backwards from a basic holy principle and
immutable truth (viewing a scientific question as a high moral
issue):  that God created the world in seven days approxiately six
thousand years ago per the Book of Genesis.