Marx and Engels: Collected Letters, Volume 2 02

Marx wrote in a letter to the German worker Joseph Dietzgen:

"After I finish writing The Economic Burden (Das Kapital), I intend to write a book on dialectics.
The correct laws of dialectics were announced by Hegel. But his dialectics is only a mystical form. The important thing is to strip away the mystical form."
"Science is precisely to explain how the law of value is carried out.
Therefore, if we are to explain from the beginning phenomena that contradict the law, we must provide science before science."
"In the end, the perpetuation of thoughtless confusion is the absolute object of the ruling class's interest."

Marx acknowledges that Hegel played a progressive role in dialectics and Huxley and others played a progressive role in the field of natural science, but he severely criticizes them for not going beyond the realm of idealism (mysticism) or agnosticism.

Marx and Engels severely criticized the idea that unexplained phenomena can be explained by fantasy or mysticism, and that there are things in the world that can never be perceived.

"Horizon Blue" (2019)

What does Marx mean when he says that "the perpetuation of thoughtless chaos is the absolute interest of the ruling class"?

The protagonist's husband's company has a poster that reads, "Work hard (for your company) 24 hours a day, like it's a war."
The Japanese government has ignored the ILO's recommendation of an 8-hour workday (the shortening of working hours was originally advocated by Marx), and has created various loopholes in the law, leading to widespread long working hours. As a result, workers are dying from overwork (Karoshi) or committing suicide.

"Horizon Blue" (2019)

On the free bulletin board of the mental rehabilitation facility for abuse victims that the protagonist attends, people write things like "I'm depressed," "I want to die," "I want to kill my mother," "I want to be happy," and "I hate healthy people."

Everyone is struggling in pain, but in the end they can't find an answer or a way out, and they just keep going around in circles.

For example, in Japan right now, we are experiencing scorching heat of nearly 40 degrees every day, and the number of new coronavirus infections is increasing.

However, the media makes no mention of the climate crisis or the responsibility of politics, and the Japanese government has stopped announcing the total number of infections nationwide.

In Japan, we are flooded with fun and entertainment information every day, but people are unable to understand why they are suffering. This is due to a lack of dialectics and materialism.

Especially since the Abe administration, the Japanese government and conservative figures in power have attacked the Communist Party, Marxism, labor unions, and the left, while at the same time continuing to shun and disown science and scholarship, as seen in the recent issue of the Science Council of Japan.The structure of the problem is clear.