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Look at a universe, galaxy, star, planet, ocean, land form,
human life form, society, tree, car, slavery, civil rights movement, abolition movement, voting rights movement, national
liberation movement. All are seeds with a period of birth, development, decline, death and replacement by the next formation.
How does one research this? Questions as simple as human bondage are really process in motion with a period of birth,
development, decline, death and rebirth into something else. Why did slavery last as long as it did? Why did the whites
need to end it after it had run its course and was getting in the way of them introducing machines into agriculture? Why did
not the Blacks being enslaved rise up and kill their enslavers to the last man to end slavery? Why do most Black populations
let other populations mop the floor with them, while others like the Vietnamese fight tooth and nail with whatever they have
for their independence and self respect? These are questions that can only be studied properly with the proper method.
What is one's method? The task is
to mirror the movement of the organism, how it is born, develops, replicated, functions, matures, enters into decline, decays,
dies, decomposes, then passes away by transforming itself into something else. The forms do not exist in reality as
static phases penetrating the movement, and they cannot be represented as if that is what they are. They have no existence
apart from the movement of the matter in this world. There are no puppets and strings. And yet the essence of the movement
lies in the forms and their necessary development and comprehending that movement presupposes analysis of those forms.
Scientific Method to
Establish Theory
There is the movement.
There is the means to replicate, mirror, test, reproduce, prove, manipulate,
understand. There is the labeling of elements of the movement with concepts. There is the ordering of the concepts reflective of the process in motion as it occurs in the
actual process over time. And there is the summation of this process broken down
into its most essential features in a symbolic language. This is scientific
theory.
With life as with society, we
must combine a snapshot with a motion picture, from start to finish; from birth, death, rebirth without detriment to either
snapshot or motion picture. We are studying a trans-historical motion picture as opposed to still photography.
Ancient African Kmt viewed reality in motion, understanding
cycles, spirals, reincarnations (birth, death, and rebirth). Their method of thought, especially in the old kingdom
period (3876-2333) was cosmological which is a synthesis of philosophy, theory, method, and practice.
1. In contradistinction
to modern European binary logic, KMT permits that both being and nonbeing is predicted about the same subject. Within this
logical framework it becomes possible and meaningful to regard the one and the many as the many and the one at the same time,
the coexistence and simultaneousness of unity and plurality, unity and the multiplicity are seen as complementary processes
toward the total conception of the thing. 2. As one follows the
21-billion year process of matter and antimatter down the majestic cosmic ladder from universes to super clusters, galaxy
clusters, galaxies, star clusters, quasars, pulsars, stars, solar systems, planets, other celestial bodies; to molecular complexes,
crystals, molecules, atoms, elementary nuclear particles, photons, force fields, quantum levels, to the sub-quantum, one recognizes:
The sun, which is a the center of the solar system, is merely one blazing celestial star in a teeming system of hundreds of
billions of stars forming this galaxy, and this galaxy itself is one of billions of galaxies in this galactic sector. The
latter is the sum total of massive stellar systems moving at colossal velocities throughout space within a vast intercosmic
system known as the universe. 3. In time the earth form within this
solar system of perhaps 10 planets and began to manifest life conditions that lead to the emergence of organic life on earth
over 3.7 billion years ago, the formation of single cell then multicellular organisms; the emergence of complex tissue-based
organisms from multicellular organisms that possessed increasingly complex inherent capacities to adapt to changing earthly
conditions; the transition to invertebrates, vertebrates, amphibians, reptiles, mammals, and primates; and then the transition
to human life over 5.5 million years ago. 4. Human life adapted
culturally and biologically to various climatic and geological conditions on earth. This adaptation created the preconditions
for the emergence of civilizations. Civilizations are the stuff that the social sciences (sociology, psychology, economics,
political sciences, anthropology, etc) are made of. While matter and antimatter are the primary universal foundation of all
things, and while the objects that matter and antimatter may manifest themselves in may appear and disappear, matter and antimatter
are indestructible. Each merely changes the forms of its existence, fluidly moving from one state to another, all within the
process of constantly being in motion, existing in time and space and having mass content. Any state of reality is transient,
relative, and temporary, and all processes have a beginning and end to their existence. 5. This objective macro and micro, material/spiritual reality is unfolding whether individuals are aware of it or
not. Science, theory, and research methods attempt to reproduce this objective reality as to establish theoretical laws for
describing the real-life expression of the phenomena. 6. Both unity
and plurality, struggle and compliment, matter and spirit, is at the foundation of KMTic cosmology. The ancient African KMTic
mind is a different logic, a different structure of thought altogether from the white and Arab mind. Therefore white and Arab
concepts are insufficient when it comes to conceptualizing, and getting at the essence of the reality that ancient Blacks
in KMT described symbolically. 7. This mindset was so antithetical
to Western conceptions of thought, that it has laid buried under millennia of distortion both conscious and unconscious. This
form of thing was not merely spiritual in nature, it was cosmological, it was all-embracing, it encompassed a system of thinking
and living that not only embraced matters of faith, morality, honor, righteousness but also religion, philosophy, sociology,
psychology, justice, and science. KMT civilization was actually situated in a time period when science, philosophy, ethics,
and religion were not yet departmentalized are separated from the mainstream of cosmological worldview of that time 7700 years
ago. 8. Therefore it is impossible for an alien modern white or
Arab civilization to understand, interpret, and justly weigh the mental essence of an ancient African civilization that is
so far from the binary logic of the present day rulers of the world. Matter and antimatter are those objective realities that
exist outside and independent of consciousness and are reflected by it. The range of present factual knowledge of matter and
antimatter extends from within the microscopic universe, 10-17cm (the core of the nucleon, sub-quantum mechanic
fields) to outside the Hubble telescopic universe, 1029cm (over 17 billion light years away). All matter and antimatter
within this limit can be described objectively, although incompletely, based on factual characteristics.[1] Delving into the core of an atom has led to the discovery of at least 383 types of elementary particles, with
new elements of micro particles being discovered on a yearly basis. 9.
From observations of high-energy particles collisions, science has proven that almost every particle of matter has a complementary
antimatter particle. In a word, at the very center of the smallest elementary particle, field, and sub-quanta level of an
atom, there is a unity and struggle of matter and antimatter, and if the two are brought together, they will annihilate each
other, leaving only radiant energy. It has also been scientifically demonstrated that when gamma rays of sufficiently high
energy are accelerated, they transform with equal probability into particles of matter or antimatter, a phenomenon known as
pair production. 10. The unity of particles and anti-particles in
constant complementary struggle is at the heart of all reality in the universe. Each elementary particle, therefore, has a
corresponding antiparticle that is identical in structure, yet fundamentally opposite in charge. For example, in unity with
an electron is a positron---an electron with a positive charge. Unified within the nucleus of an elementary particle is the
unity of a proton and neutron with their opposites, an antiproton and an antineutron. These forms of matter and anti matter
are constantly in cross-paralleled pairs; they are always in motion, existing in space and time, having mass content, held
together by an overlapping system of electromagnetic and gravitational fields, and is driven by some internal motive force.
11. In sum, we must not merely borrow the teaching of ancient African
ancestors, we must not merely reclaim this world view from alien hands and critically cleans it and restore it to its Black
African cultural roots, but proceeding from the latest scientific discoveries and the sum total of historical experiences
of humankind we must develop modern African centered cosmology into a scientific system of theory, philosophy, and methods
consistent with the best that modern world progress and science has to offer. 12. This new African centered world view this Black cosmology must be rooted in ancient KMT but must be modernized
to as an all embracing synthesis, including the continuity and critical acceptance of all the advance progressive elements
already attained by human scientific and spiritual practices encompassing the intricate complete of natural phenomena, the
phenomena of human society and thought, and combining its philosophical method of explaining and analyzing reality with the
purpose of a real life practical revolution reconstruction of the world within this lifetime.
African KMT: Synthesizing the Best of Ancient Human Spirit
Modern scientific research is a product of an intellectual evolution extending over thousands of years and many continents.
For students of world studies through African eyes, the edifice of contemporary research designs therefore have their origins
in the rain forests, deserts, and Nile rivers of African antiquity, over 7000 years ago.
In fact, the Nile Valley
River system, which runs through the heart of the African continent, is at the heart---the center---of (1) the human species
in all of its stages dating from 5,500,000 years ago; (2) the first settled human class societies, dating from 10,000 years
ago; (3) and the first ancient advanced civilizations, dating from 7000 years ago. Ancient KMT (Egypt) has played the
same role in relations to African culture and civilization that the Greco-Roman civilization has played in relationship to
western and Eastern Europe. KMT was an indigenous African ethnic and cultural cluster of civilizations, geographically
situated along the 4,144-mile Nile River, which flowed from the interior of the African continent to the delta region of North
Africa. Essentially, then, at the center of Africa's ancient moral, cosmological, scientific, methodological, and
theoretical being is KMT. Therefore, any contemporary African scientific worldview must be founded on ancient KMT's
Pharaonic cosmology, which constituted the first moment in Africa's long moral and scientific tradition.
Few European scientists, in any domain of the humanities and science, would conduct scientific
work without referring back to their Greco-Roman past, because basically all of the Western scientific notation and symbols
are written either in Greek or Roman. Similarly, African scientific, cultural, or spiritual facts will only find their
profound meaning and their coherence in reference to KMT. The reestablishment of indigenous African science rooted in
the ancient epochal contributions of KMT is a long-term goal that will ultimately result in the indigenous production of science
and technology, again, through the African mind, and thus negating the hundreds of years of dependence on oppressor nations.
According to Dr. Cheikh Anta Diop, African scientist, taking the best that the human mind and spirit have had
to offer in the world can build a body of disciplines in the humanities and the sciences only by legitimating and systematizing
the return to KMT as a foundation on which to build a scientific view of the world via the African mind. In this way,
any African theory or method cannot be opposed to or isolated from the most advanced achievements of ancient and modern civilization.
According to Dr. Cheikh Anta Diop, African scientist, taking the best that the human mind and spirit have had
to offer in the world can build a body of disciplines in the humanities and the sciences only by legitimating and systematizing
the return to KMT as a foundation on which to build a scientific view of the world via the African mind. In this way,
any African theory or method cannot be opposed to or isolated from the most advanced achievements of ancient and modern civilization.
Interests, therefore, in modern methods of studying physical and social processes is not
an abstract historical pursuit for African scientists; to the contrary, research methods are the essence, the meat and bone's,
the practical means of achieving any significant scientific conclusion on which this modern technological epoch stands.
Not to study the best that the modern world has offered and extract the rational and moral kernel of these methods of researching
phenomena is to relegate the African mind to utter obsolescence in a period of technological and scientific revolution.
As scientific theories are verified scientific practices, method is how
one systematically arrives at that conclusion---the actual means of achieving the theory. Each new epoch in human progress
presents new problems that can only be solved in due course by advanced methods of research. The life process of any
social problem by its historical nature is innately transient. Therefore, one cannot end with a mere contemplative theoretical
and cognitive interpretation of reality. Everything is constantly changing. Consequently, research methods should adaptively
improve as conditions become more complex.
Tracing the practice of science
and scientific research back to its roots reveal that most initial forms of modern natural science and the branches of science
were first developed by the indigenous ancient African KMTians. The foundations of the exact natural sciences were,
therefore, first worked out by the Black Africans in KMT 2500 years before Greece, Rome, and later European and Arab metaphysicians
invaded the North African region, seized the torch of scientific extradition along with millions of square miles of land,
hundreds of millions of lives, and untold wealth in mineral resources, labor, and human intellectual thought matter stored
up in ancient temples and libraries.
The initial analysis of the
universe into its individual parts; the embryonic mastery of astrophysics, physics, chemistry, biology, psychology, anthropology,
archaeology, geology, mathematics; the grouping of the different natural processes and objects in definite classes; the study
of the internal anatomy of organized bodies in their manifold forms; the classification of populations of the world as were
known; animal husbandry, urban planing, civil engineering, astrology, advanced architecture, law, family organization, government,
federal organization of states and cities (nomes), their stages of development---these are the fundamental conditions of the
gigantic strides that ancient KMT had made before the destructive invasions tore the heart of African civilization, culture,
and intellect from its initial centers along the Nile River. The first scientifically verifiable calendar in the world
was in use by 4236bc in ancient African KMT.
It was a galactic calendar which was synchronized with the
1460 periodical rising of Sirius "B" binary star system, which means that ancient Africans in KMT had initiated
this calendar by 5696bc along the Nile River in east-central Africa. Such a painstaking scientific discovery organized
time and organized indigenous African civilization along the Nile. Time is such an essential element of human life;
almost every single scientific conclusion must be methodologically situated in some time, space, and mass dimension.
The beginnings of indigenous African systems of thought date from Pharaonic times with the
production of the African KMT Memphite (Wa-Set) Philosophy (4,236bc), which was the earliest systematic moral code establishing
right and wrong, and good and bad. In ancient African morality, ethics, and virtue, major emphasis was placed on an
individual's conduct in life, treating it as the basis on which one will be judged in the next life. These principles
organized social space and gave order to the social lives of Africans who settled along the 4,144-mile Nile River. The
roots of this uniquely African will to justice via science were, therefore, initiated in this period. According to African
philosopher Dr. Theophile Obenga:
If the object
of philosophy remains the human effort to discover ordered thought, if civilization can only be understood as a societal system
dominated by a coherent concept of life, then it is irrefutable that Pharaonic [KMT] was the very cradle of philosophical
speculation, as we know it. Furthermore, she reached such a speculation in the absence of all religious revelation.
More that 2000 years before Thales, Pharaonic Kmt was involved in deep philosophy and had invented a concept of ordered life
embedded in a language that suggests a tradition which was several centuries old. (Obenga 1989, 314)
The independent indigenous literary production, the philosophical tradition,
the moral basis for this great African civilization stretches over 3500 years. Its content was dualistic, holistically
integrating matter and spirit, science and morality, theology and cosmology. Pyramids (the largest buildings in the
world that have stood for over 6000 years in Africa's KMT were not built by empty religious mysticism, but by scientifically
skilled indigenous African architects, engineers and master urban planners---who at the same time adhered to advanced moral
codes of social conduct. Science and morality, therefore, were one unified and complementary cross-paralleled reality.
One did not negate the other. Ancient Kmt's KA Method Extracted
Grasp a whole in motion, like a movie as opposed to still photography, then uncover the contradictions that constitute
the moving principle of its development. Grasp a whole in motion, in
time and space, with mass and uncovering the fundamental internal contradictions that constitute the moving principle of its
development from birth-death-rebirth As such categories must be derived,
fashioned and fitted for each specific concrete aspect of the subject-matter. Contradictions are first in the real process;
they are the basis of concepts and categories. The interconnectedness, unity and struggle drive change, development, transformation
and renewal within actual time dimensions Everything exists within
time and is an unbroken process of coming to be, being, been, becoming. Time is the fundamental element of existence. Essentially,
"A=A" can only equal "A=A" if a thing is equal to itself because it does not change, i.e., if it does
not exist. Everything changes, everything has a time for change, some things like planets require billions of years,
others like cells require seconds. Africans in Kmt not only followed the birth of the process in its union and struggle
of opposites, they measured growth, maturation, degeneration/regression, death, transformation, reincarnation and hypothesized
on the form of rebirth each organism would take. The problem
of grasping a thing is essentially the problem of grasping that it is in motion of birth, development, maturation, decline,
death and rebirth. If a society as a whole is to be grasped in motion, in process, becoming, it must be comprehended thoroughly,
its dynamic of production, who owns it, who's owned, the races, the sexes, cultures, classes, generations, the dynamics
of its direct production process, the level of technology, its form and content, whether it is labor saving or labor replacing.
Tearing out people in history as if history itself did not first make people is the fundamental mistake of the African centered
and African Humanities movements today. In fact, almost of African social science is flawed in this respect. Identify the unit of study, place it within its womb of development, follow its conception,
birth, maturation. It is internally driven; it has its own engine, its own inner impulse. Grasp that the thing
is in motion, and then grasp the motion itself, its direction, means of energy, what drives it, the driving force of it, its
internal impetus, its energy, its density, and its motive. It,
has its source in the underlying unity and struggle of opposites-contradictions, battling internal opposites. The world, as
we know it, is held together by a law that is based on the balanced dual nature of all things (wholes, parts, aspects of a
unity, opposing elements with a combustion chamber). Among noticeable balanced pairs are: male and female, odd and even, just
and unjust, solid/fluid, black/white, negative and positive, active and passive, light and darkness, fast/slow, large/small,
aggressive/passive, yes and no, true and false - each pair represents a different aspect of the same fundamental principle
of polarity. And each aspect partakes of the nature of unity and of the nature of duality. Sample Kmtian applications of the universal dual nature include: 1 - The pre-creation state consisted
of four pairs of primeval dual-gendered twins. 2 - The Kmtians perceived the universe in terms of a dualism
between Ma-at - Truth and Order - and disorder. Amen-Renef summoned the cosmos out of undifferentiated
chaos, by distinguishing the two, by giving voice to the ultimate ideal of Truth. Ma-at, as shown here, is
usually portrayed in the double form - Maati. 42 Kmtian Cosmology - The Animated Universe 3
- The dual principle in the creation state was expressed in the pair of Shu and Tefnut.
The pair of husband and wife is the characteristic Kmtian way of expressing duality and polarity. This dual nature was manifested
in Ancient Kmtian texts and traditions, since its recovered archeological findings. The most ancient texts of the Old Kingdom,
namely the Pyramid Texts 1652, express the dual nature: ...and though didst spit out as Shu, and didst spit
out as Tefnut. . Another way of expressing the intent of the dual nature is present in the Ancient Kmtian text, known
as the Bremner-Rhind Papyrus: I was anterior to the Two Anteriors that I made, for I had priority over the
Two Anteriors that I made, for my name was anterior to theirs, for I made them anterior to the Two Anteriors ... It is one thing to develop a science to the point where one can present it scientifically,
something else altogether to apply an abstract and ready-made system of logic, a cookie cutter-stripped of concrete categories
reflecting a concrete reality. Scientific methods of analysis must be made to fit; one size does not fit all. This logic is
incompatible with a strictly scientific method. This is the European positivist mistake. There is no ready-made system lying around which will, in virtue of its universal applicability,
if applied to any sphere of phenomena, thereby beget its scientific and critical comprehension. Study has to be serious,
protracted, exhaustive, systematic, replicable, and reliable. Care has to be taken to intimately understand reality.
Nothing is set in stone. Even the language of research has to be evolved, developed, and improved over time. New
words have to be created to reflect new understanding, deeper investigation, and more varied processes. Concrete categories (definition, concepts) in which a science is presented must be derived
from a detailed appropriation, inquiry, and presentation of the concrete, empirical/theoretical data of the field in question Abstractions and categories do not arrive from nowhere; they have to be constructed, fashioned-scaffold
of the objective reality in a linguistic form. They are constructed through a process of appropriating the concrete empirical
data of the area under investigation. Concept formation is essential. Africans usually use what has been left to them
instead of starting from their source in Kmt, and building modern forms of thought expression. This intellectual parroting
is only useful in the early stages of understanding what has already been proven. Concepts, categories and abstractions must be are specific to the particular area of reality that is under study.
The idea of a general scheme independent of first hand specific content is not possible. Physics, chemistry, sociology,
economics, biology, demography, architecture, urban planning, morality and ethics have their own unique processes reflective
of the natural seeds they are reflecting. Develop a language/word pool reflective of each one. The concepts, definitions, categories reflecting a specific reality are a result of the analysis
of the real nature of aspects of things that are apart of that reality. Whether those categories are capable of application
to other areas is an empirical question that turns on the real natures concerned Without appropriation of data, investigation/inquiry/presentation (AIP) there can be no formalized specific system
apriori to the reality. Such a level of generalization would require knowledge of everything about everything. There is no
general scheme independent of specific content, no abstractions from thin air, no magic bullets, no oracles, no sooth sayings,
no prayers that make miracles, no mysteries, no secret potions, no Korans, Bibles, Talmuds-just objective reality of specific
phenomena reflected in words, categories, concepts reflected of unity and struggle of opposite driven motion within a process
of birth, death, rebirth. There is no ready made system awaiting application to produce science out of illusion. In sum grasp a whole in motion, uncover the contradictions that constitute the moving principle
of its development from birth, death, and rebirth. What is a whole? How is the whole identified? What is a contradiction?
How does a contradiction create energy (power) for the motion of the whole? What drives it? Where is it going? What
direction is it going? How fast? Is it accelerating? What are its different forms of development?
Where will it end based on how processes of its type have ended in the past.
Data Collection
Data
collection is appropriation of materials reflective of aspects of the process-inquiry into different forms of development,
inner connections-presentation of the real movement based on a necessary point of departure.
As ancient African KMT did, follow the process of birth, death, and rebirth in the
data as to understand its internal material and spiritual driving force---its science and will. The factual reality, the objective
condition, the material reality is the starting point---not the idea. Therefore, the study must precisely compare facts, not
with abstract subjectively chosen ideas, but with other facts. These facts are reviewed as opposing aspects of the same reality,
and even thought they are in struggle, they compliment each other. Conflict does not determine the process; it drives it to
its resolution within the context of complementariness. For this study, all facts are organized chronologically, historically,
and logically as processes unfolding in a conceptual symbolic form. Once one has collected the data and organized it in its
natural process of progression it is necessary to view it as a process of natural birth, death, and rebirth. Isolate the law
of change in the data; establish the relationships---the natural relationships, that is, of their transition from one form
into another, from one series of interrelationships into a different one. After reestablishing the objective internal driving
motion of the process from the data, the researcher must investigate in detail the manifestations in which it expresses itself
in reality.
The facts are then investigated as
precisely as possible, and organized in such a way as to form, different stages in the development of the process. Everything
is in motion. Nothing is absolutely resting, everything is changing. Some processes take longer than others to mature, however,
in time all things become their opposites if allowed to go through all of their natural stages of internal development. Abstract
eternal laws do not exist in history. In billions of years of a star coming into being and dying, change is absolute;
some laws such as the law of gravity in this solar system has over 5 billion years of maturity; however, because the sun is
a natural body with a life span, it will one day burn out and completely change the gravitational relationship between planets
and stars. As soon as a process has outlived its motive purpose, it's given natural time of development based on an earlier
developmental cycle, and is in transition from one stage to another, it must be judged based on different objective conditions
and laws.
Included in the summary the summary is comprehension and affirmative recognition of the existing state
of things, and at the same time also, the recognition of the negation of that state of things, of its inevitable breakup.
This method therefore regards every historical developed social formation, society, as in fluid motion, and therefore takes
into account its transient nature not less than its momentary existence.
Of course the method of presentation must differ in from that of inquiry. The latter
has to appropriate the material in detail, to analyze its different forms of development, to trace out their inner connection.
Only after this work is done, can the actual movement be adequately described. If this is done successfully, if the life of
the subject matter is ideally reflected as in a mirror, then it may appear as if we had before us a mere a prior construction.
After the study is completed the process should appear in print as if it were a mirror of the process in reality. With
the use of statistical techniques appropriate for the data, a quantitative picture of the process can be organized with the
use of symbols, pictures and words, a qualitative view of the process can be presented. Next write the report, and present
the findings in published form.
Contradictions
must exist as features of the real world. The two poles united in opposition necessitate one another, belong to and mutually
condition each other This polar opposition within a process is the
simple form which internally remains hidden within until bursting asunder, a rupture, a leap, a passing into something else.
The internal opposition between two aspects within a union, hidden within, is therefore represented in the surface by an external
opposition. In the embryonic form these opposites must undergo a
series of internal metamorphoses before they ripen into overt pregnancies with certain potentialities or lines of development
which may be realized given the right historical conditions. Simultaneously
these forms exclude each other as polar opposites but are now realities. At some point there is a necessary crystallization
of formal aspects of the unity, equated, converted, historical development, deepening, broadening, ripening at a rate reflective
of the raw material, internal and external This process is not uni-linear
progression of forms, but a more complex process in which forms overlap, interpenetrate and develop each other. The development is a necessary one arising from the internal opposition inherent in the thing.
This is a historical movement which could be reflected in words. The
germ germinates. The polar antagonism inherent implies contradictory and mutually exclusive conditions. The further development
of the thing does not abolish these contradictions but rather provides the form within which they have room to move, space
to grow, chance to become. And in turn, the further development of the thing itself begets new latent oppositions that can
in the right conditions burst forth into absolute contradictions-new contradictions immanent in the functions. In sum, two poles united in an opposition necessitate one another. They belong, need, demand,
depend, and mutually condition each other. But what is the nature
of the necessity that unites opposites within an opposition in which each pole necessitates the other? A depends on B; B grew
out of and depends on A. A can live without B, but does not want to. B cannot yet live without A. There is an order. (magnitude). The real nature of entities do not lie around on the surface ready for our immediate appropriation.
They have to be uncovered by investigation and thought. And to acquire such knowledge is what it is to know what things are
and to understand them. In short, we only really know things when
we know their essence. Development occurs, the tendency or potentiality
is realized-it is not a necessity. If the development does occur, that it takes the sort of course it does is necessary Actualization of an inherent tendency or the realization of a potentiality cannot be necessary
truths, for the potentiality might (in some possible world) not be realized In sum, Ka is concerned with organisms; social, economic, political, cultural, biological, physical, chemical, anthropological.
Moreover, it is concerned with them in their organic processes of development, change and reproduction. It is on this that
the other aspect of Ka contradiction has direct bearing The poles
in an opposition are not just united they also repel one another. They are brought together in a unity, but within that
unity, they are in tension, antagonistically resolving their struggle. The real historical existence of a reality in its aspects-forms
provide the internal centripetal force that contains the centrifugal force of the mutual repulsion of opposing aspects within
it. This is an unstable equilibrium before measure It is pregnant
with possibilities, which history may present either with the conditions for the realization of those possibilities, or with
the indefinite variety of conditions that will frustrate their realization Given the right conditions, the embryo will develop its potentiality; and the simple form will undergo the metamorphoses
that take the thing from its embryo, through infancy to early adolescence with the attainment of the universal forms of the
thing. The line of development is most accidental or fortuitous;
it is not a process of aggregating contingent and extraneous additions. It is rather a process of development of the potentialities
within and the increasing differentiation of, an original whole if
history does not block the growth of the thing's internal aspects in struggle, then that growth will find out the inadequacy
of its simple form and transform into its more complex form Then,
looked at from the point of view of efficient causation, those engaged in that activity, being rational and inventive in the
face of the problems thrown up by their developing aspects-will act so as to solve their practical difficulties by measures
that overcome their lower forms What has come out of this is a development
that, barring accidents, will take its course This evolution is necessary;
its final form is not final, it is immanent as a potentiality within its original one Coming to be is therefore a matter of actualizing the potential of some currently existing entity We have scientific knowledge when we know the cause Cause means the form or structure comprehended as the aim or end of a movement or characteristic behavior, which
is revealed by observations of that movement and behavior Our objective
in scientific analysis is to reveal the form and its necessary line of development. Begin with the simplest form and present
each subsequent articulations as a development of form. Complete the method of inquiry after appropriating the data The behavior characteristic of the organism in its reproduction in the higher form is cause-the
form of the underlying development, and the necessity with which the matter undergoes its metamorphoses or line of development
from its simplest embryonic form The contradiction is not only inherent
in an essence; it is specifically a potentiality within the essence which will, conditions permitting, be realized, and in
being realized will appear in non-accidental or necessary change that beget an organic system Ka is therefore a process of natural genesis, that is the realization of the potentialities inherent in its embryonic
form
Analysis/Synthesis/Presentation
Having appropriated data, established chronology, historical
context, and logical summation, the internal assessment of contradictions begin. This is the process of inquiry. In it the
inner connections of the phenomenon are traced, the embryonic forms are identified and comprehended. Next the transformations
by which each aspects of a primary contradiction are presented through which it moves into higher forms. Next reproduce the
moment in a communicable manner without falsifying or misrepresenting it.
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Modern Research Through African Eyes
As philosophy emerged as a generalizing system for the summation of human experience, method and theory became
essential pillars of embryonic scientific/metaphysical investigation. The problem of accumulating, storing, organizing
and transmitting human experience necessitated an ever-increasing formalization of key principles, techniques, rules of thumb,
and even formulas. Just as conditions change, the ideas that reflect those conditions change.
This is obviously not a new phenomenon in nature: The 21 billion year old
universe is in constant motion, changing and developing. The development of the universe is a continuous process of
the dying off of the old and the emergence of the new. Nothing lasts forever; all things perish. Everything (whether
positive or negative) develop, this development is a process of dying off of the old and the emergence of the new. Before
natural death of any formation, there is a period of regression, retrogression, decay, decomposition, etc. Earth crust illustrates
the formation of ever new and variant geological structures. Vegetable and animal kingdoms in their old organic forms gave
way to new and better ones. Just as cells are constantly regenerated in living organisms (old ones die and new ones
arise), so in another life obsolete forms of social structure, systems, and ideological systems die and new progressive or
regressive ones are born. Again, before they die a natural death, there is an intense period of regression.
In the resulting ideological rubble loom such global organizing
paradigms as post-feminism, and neo-structural functionalism, which attempt to collect and give meaning to fragmented ideological
forms resulting from the implosion of former capitalist and socialist ideological systems of thought. The extraction
of the essential elements of this moment, critical assessment of philosophical, theoretical, and methodological systems is
necessary to advanced philosophy, theory and methods in this area. However, no philosophy, theory, or method is ever
intellectually disposed of by the mere assertion that it is false or by simply ignoring that they exist. It has
to be "sublated" in its own sense, that is in the sense that while its form had to be annihilated through criticism
the new content which had been won through it had to be saved.
This process of intellectual advancement via critical annihilation of obsolete ideas is not new to the physical sciences
where established theories are superseded in physics, chemistry, and biology on a yearly basis without much fanfare.
The form must be annihilated through criticism, and the new content, which has been won through, has to be preserved, reinforced
and elaborated with historical fact. And so in the course of technological developments that which was previously acceptable
becomes unacceptable, that which was labeled as bias-free is shown to be biased, that which was presented as factual is shown
not to be factual, that which was thought to be real is shown to be unreal, that which was thought to be reasonable and rational
is shown to be unreasonable and irrational. In the place of a moribund reality stands to come a new, viable reality.
In he face of such accelerated change, a system of thought and
inquiry must be fashioned to reflect epochal changes in their fullness. Here a new historiography, philosophy,
theory, method or general approach to social development is an immensely valuable tool for both understanding and stimulating
human history. For starters, an approach suffused with the confidence of being rooted in he historical development of
philosophical, theoretical, and methodological ideas is necessary.
Second, an advanced approach must also be flexible and elastic in its collection, organization,
analysis, and synthesis of ideas. From existence we get to logic and not necessarily the other way around. Human
cognition can discover logical formations in reality only because the objects of cognition possess them in the first place.
Theory, therefore, is summarize practiced. The material object of thought is, therefore, the object of some relative
expression of reality. Essentially ideas and real theoretical concepts categories are not more eternal than the unique
historical conditions that they express. In sum, the essence, the heart, the foundation of any concrete
theory that is reflective of reality is practice. Practical verification is the fundamental raw material of scientific
theory, whereas theory is the fundamental guide to practice.
Therefore, social philosophy, theory, or method (whether Afrocentric, Asian, Indian or Eurocentric)
is measurable based on its actual practical application to reality. Since every philosophy, theory, or method
has its own material foundation in history, no matter how metaphysical the disguise in which they often masquerade, a truly
liberating criticism has always involved improving the material conditions, which are at the very foundation of the social
groups and the thoughts that they think. The new progressive humanist theories of the future will succeed not merely
because they represents objective reality, are interculturally uplifting, morally sound, driven by justice, unrelenting in
will, centered in historical intercultural values of mutual respect and commitment to human excellence, but also because they
serve the needs of humanity and the social conditions which produce those needs.
Liberating social philosophy, theory, and method becomes realized in a people only
in so far as it is the realization of their real life needs. In any society in which race, sex-sex/gender, class, and
generation divisions give rise to conflicting needs, values, cultural forms and ideas, each race, sex-sex/gender, class, and
generation sets itself up as a representative of the common interests of the entire society. The ruling, race, sex/gender,
class, culture and generation officially define what it means to be an American. Therefore, each race, sex-sex/gender,
class, generation develops a worldview and ideology, which it holds to be universally true and around which it seeks to impose
as the view of the entire society. Usually, the group with the force---the military, political, psychological, and intellectual
might---rules. Those who have power influence the gradual flow of history: they write the books, they make the videos,
and they finance mass media versions of the reality as they see it.
Each class has a view; each ethnic group has a view; each sex/gender has a view; each generation has a view; each
culture has a view. Possessing and being able to articulate historical or cultural information are not enough.
Debating intelligence is not enough. The question is: What historical legacy and class, gender/sex, race, culture, and
generation worldview does the idea represent? If not scientific, it is not replicable, and thus merely an ideologically
abstract means to a speculative end.
Since
the formation of humanity over 5.5 million years ago, and the subsequent development of settled class societies with sex/gender,
class, cultural, ethnic, and generational divisions of labor, human societies have revolved around the production, distribution,
exchange, consumption, and reproduction of the necessities of life and the power, which those possessions allowed.
Humans are continually improving the quality of the tools they use in earning their living. The possession of the new
productive technologies and the invention of the new methods give a natural advantage over those who still live by the old
means. The ethnicity, class, sex, or generation, which has control of the new forces of production, has power, economic/technological
power, political power, however, which is hampered by the cultural, traditional, political, and legal property relations which
express the earlier forms of material production.
To
reduce theory and method to a list of examples, criticisms, definitions, concepts, and analogies is to reject the principle
of objectivity and resort to speculative, eclecticism, and subjectivity. For example, in some areas of the positivist
social sciences, and in the reactionary aspect of the Afrocentric movement, the most widely used and fallacious method of
research is to isolate and randomly tear out individual minor facts, dissect them independent of the social context that gave
birth to them, string together some analogies, then juggle this biased concoction with examples and "expert" references
(and in some cases if the researcher claims Afrocentricity, sprinkle in some Swahili terms). When they run into trouble
on facts they introduce some mystical slavemaker god/allah mess to lend crediability to what they are saying. No
wonder most of the younger generation of Black children who need concrete answers in this world---not in some pie-in-the-sky
afterlife fraud the whites/arabs made up---are not listening anymore. They know that we will get what we are organized
to earn. Nobody will give us anything. We got no help in the 500 years of murderours enslavement from the bible/koran
witers and we won't get anything but slavery from them now as their economic systems crash and burn in face of labor replacing
technology.
Making up a reality as opposed to mirroring it as it flowers and flows in
the real world is the central error in all African movements of the past 2700 years. Only Kmt had it right, and used
it to build a civilization that lasted in a balanced way for over 4000 years. This present flawed way of Black thinking
is based on eternal unalterable concepts and formulas regardless of the new data of practice and science and the specific
conditions, ignoring the processes own unique creative development. This is not proper research because isolated
facts selectively presented as variables and torn out of context are merely subjective constructs for mental juggling.
Reducing objective social processes to arbitrary patchworks of culturally, racially, class, and sex/gender biased variables
and testing them in an abstracted imaginary context may be published in mainstream presses, but such publications maybe of
no objectively scientific value, because each fact, each conceptualization, each variable, each analogy, each example grows
out of some historically evolved concrete situation that must be summarized in its entirety if one is to bring to life---mentally
reflect/reconstruct---the process in one's mind that is taking place in reality.
Therefore, a holistic approach to social research problems requires that one extract
the process itself and then deduce from it its essence after logically summarizing the unfolding process. Minor facts,
subjectively transformed into variables, arbitrarily selected and tested out of context from the conditions that produced
them, are amputated fragments of a total reality---a reality which must be painstakingly taken apart then pieced back together
as to ascertain the object's laws of development.
Principles of African
Centered Research Based on Ancient Kmt
Inferences can be drawn, but conclusions from such studies
are never final; not can they be comprehensive in scope and content:
•1. Fundamental to the elaboration
of any science is the step-by-step disclosure of the methods of research at the disposal of the
particular discipline. •2.
The instruments of research and the principles on which facts are selected, systematized, processed and analyzed,
then synthesized depend on the choice of method. •3.
Method is the systematic approach to the study of reality, the mode of cognition, the set of rules, a systematic
means for reflecting the process as it unfold. It establishes the primacy of matter in the universe, assumes the logic
of seeing a process as it develops from cell to developed system, documents the internal contradictions within the process
as they unfold overtime, isolates the principal aspect of the primary contradiction whose resolution drives the transformation
of quantities into new qualities, and presents this process of birth-death-rebirth cycles as a system of sublation of the
best elements of the old in service of the new.•4.
Scientific research methods approach questions without getting lost in the detail or diversity of conflicting
opinion by establishing the underlying historical connection, examining every question from the stand point of how the given
phenomena arose in history, and defining the principal stages in its development: •4.1. Comprehensively, state the problem in all of its dimensions and
detail. •4.1.1.
Collected the mass of data surrounding the problem statement •4.1.2. Establish mutual cause and effect connections between various
facts or groups of facts•4.1.3.
Isolate the most essential, stable and recurrent cause and effect connections •4.2. Organize data, which is a documented reflection of all aspects,
elements, stages, phases, contradictions, forms and content of the process. •4.3. Select a comprehensive bibliography and review relevant literature.
•4.3.1. Carefully read
and take notes from each book, journal, articles, or/and document. •4.3.2. Make abstracts, copy quotes, make critical
observations. •4.3.3.
Identify categories and definitions; create terminology reflective of the object of analysis. •4.3.4. Mark important passages; critically
summarize conclusions. •4.4.
Prepare a full plan of inquiry. •4.5. Sufficient factual knowledge should be accumulated about the process as a whole, summarized
and placed in the actual chronological place that it occurred in the historical process, cleaned of bias and subjectivity
and be a concrete material reflection of matter in motion, organized as it appears in history. •4.6. Compile facts, collect of data, aggregation of mass of empirical
data will allow for the initial superficial cognition of the process. •4.7. Compile short critical theses. Order concrete aspects and elements (in abstract form) as
they unfold in history. •4.7.1.
Analyze all contradictions in the process, most importantly the primary, principle, and basic internal contradiction. •4.7.2. Outline processes internal advances and
regressions, contradictions and antagonisms, equilibrium and resolutions. •4.8. In analyzing the vast amount of factual material reality, ascend from concrete to the abstract,
taking special care to reflect the process in modern relations by singling out from the whole system a point of departure
for the emergence of all other, more complicated relations. •4.8.1.
Single out the cell form of the process, understand the embryonic form of all the contradictions within and then between the
process. •4.8.2.
Trace the historical process of the development of the cell-form to a category to a group of categories to a series of groups
to a system of series to a complex of systems to universal interconnections. •4.8.3. The elaboration of the entire "living" formation and
phenomena is a diversity of relationships which takes shape in the material dynamics of the process. •4.9. To examine these relationships, it is initially necessary
to break down each relationship into simple elements, analyze and scrutinize each of these elements in detail, separate opposing
categories, penetrate their internal shells exposing their antithetical aspects in unity and struggle, then determine their
place and role within the whole complex of fundamental relations. •4.9.1. Break relationships down to simple elements, •4.9.2. Scrutinize each of these elements in detail,
•4.9.3. Determine its
place and roles, •4.9.4.
Reverse this process of analysis and begin to meticulously unite these elements into an integral synthesis. •4.10.
Place the process in motion by following the principles aspect of the category within the opposing unity which is the primary
contradiction. Identify the role it has come to play in the present process. •4.11.
Ascend from simple to complex, concrete to abstract back to concrete. •5. Formulate the basic law of the process, establish the stage of development
of its progress, the material basis for its transformation into a higher formation, and the principle agents for accelerating
the qualitative transformation of this process into a higher formation from quantity to quality, identity to measure, equilibrium
to antagonism, evolution to revolution, regression before the leap forward to the negation of moribund to embryonic development---
of the accent the new from the old. •6.
Findings are summarized in notebooks as the process unfolds: Data-Chronology-History Context-Logical Summation-synthesis,
proceeding from the outer appearance of phenomena to their inner essence, from the concrete to the abstract. Once abstraction
has been brought out the essential features of the relations, the movement of the study is reversed (as a camera obscura)
and proceeds from essence to appearance, returning to the concrete phenomena abstracted earlier, then from abstract to concrete.
•7. Having brought
out the essence of relations, the external form in which these relationships manifest themselves on the surface can be photographed
using scientific language: Concrete Process-Abstract Reflection-Concrete Reproduction using scientific language, mathematical
formulae, and theoretical summation.•8.
Document this process in book form as stages of development. Divide into Volumes, Parts, Chapters, and Sections. Document
the principle stages of development in the process so that each volume, part, chapter, section, sub-section, and paragraph
is a reflection of a fundamental stage, or phase in the ascent or descent from the simple to the complex from the lower
to the higher (or the reverse) in the cognition of the essence of this process. •9. In all natural, social, and intellectual processes, development
proceeds from the simple to the complex, from the lower to the higher. The development can be progressive or regressive
but the engine which brings about the transition from lower stages to higher ones is the unity and struggle of opposites,
Abstract to concrete reflects the actual historical process of mankind's upward development. This implies a unity
of the historical and the logical for theoretical research here is a reflection of the actual historical process of social
development. •10. Logical method must follow
the essential general outlines of the actual historical process. Historical process is summarized in detail but considered
in its concentrated, inessential form. The method of research must be distinguished from the method of presentation. Use both
the analytical and historical method. •11.
The analytical method must predominate in scientific work in which the results of a fundamental theoretical are presented
for the first time. To substantiate and illustrate various theoretical conclusions, use historical statistical data and various
historical retrospect. In sum, give a history of the process. Give an analysis of the concepts, which sum that history
up. •12. The summation of any process
entails an analysis of qualitative and quantitative aspects of the categories, which are in interaction, contradiction and
unity interdependence. The qualitative aspect is the leading one and determines the quantitative aspect, while quantitative
changes sooner or later lead to the emergence of qualitatively new phenomena. Use mathematical and statistical methods
to process statistical data in order to show the quantitative movements of various categories within the process, which you
study. •13. Ascertain the stage of
development of the contradictions within each element of each category. Isolate contradiction. Dissect the aspects of
each contradiction. Unity and struggle of each aspect of each element within each unity of opposites of a particular contradiction.
Use math and statistics to ascertain the stage of development of these contradictions, their quantitative expression: show
difference, unity, and struggle of opposites, quantitative and qualitative development of the phenomena, resolution of the
contradiction using quantitative indicators as auxiliary instruments in realizing the conclusions of scientifically and historically
verified theoretical relations.•14. Cognition
of the objective world via scientific theory, method and instrumentation (technology) proceeds from living contemplation to
abstract thinking and then on to practice. Seek to discern true essence of phenomena beneath their often-deceptive appearance.
Inferences are drawn. •15. The final stage
of cognition is social practice, which confirms or invalidates the theoretical conclusions and generalizations elaborated
by scientific thinking. Test the truth of knowledge by elaborating this science then practically using it to study real life
processes. •16. With the transition from
scientific thinking to practice, knowledge reaches a higher level and is tested and enriched with new findings because the
unity and interconnection of scientific theory and social practice ensure the validity of conclusions as an instrument in
the transformation of the old to the new. •17.
It is not enough to give a scientific explanation of the world, but it is necessary to develop means and methods to improve
it. Next the necessary material elements and agents of change must be convinced, organized and steeled to carry out their
historical tasks.
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