Marx’s dialectic is a form of conceptual jiujitsu that flips thought

Evidence

Karl Marx may or may not have been correct about political economy, but nobody could deny his slashing capacity to unleash systematic rethinking. He was formally trained in the art of dialectic, that special form of conceptual jiujitsu whereby thought is, somehow, reversed, even flipped. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 271

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines dialectic as the conceptual flip mechanic, the pivotal method of the chapter.
• XREF: connects to: Gramsci distinguishes Marx’s rational dialectic from a merely materialist inversion of Hegel — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2774; Marx inverted Hegel’s dialectic using Hegel’s own ‘standing on head’ phrase
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Gramsci distinguishes Marx’s rational dialectic from a merely materialist inversion of Hegel — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2774; Marx inverted Hegel’s dialectic using Hegel’s own ‘standing on head’ phrase