The Structure of Scientific Socialism: Quantum Emergence, Frustration, and the Non-Dual Dialectic

Classical Marxism relied on a 19th-century Newtonian view of reality as a predictable, mechanical system. This paper argues that 20th-century physics—especially the concept of emergence from condensed matter physics—along with the non-dual philosophy of Advaita Vedanta, offers a better foundation for socialist theory. By examining phenomena like geometric frustration in spin glasses and Mott insulators, the authors propose that social stability and change arise from a universal consciousness field, not from mechanical laws. This quantum-informed dialectic resolves the tension between individual and collective, echoing the views of physicists like Schrödinger and Heisenberg on the fundamental unity of reality.

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Abstract

Classical Marxism and the algebra of revolution were formulated within the ontological constraints of 19th-century Newtonian materialism-a world of discrete, predictable, billiard-ball interactions. However, the 20th-century transitions in physics, from Thomas Kuhn's paradigm shifts to Phil Anderson's philosophy of emergence, have dismantled the reductionist foundations of this mechanical worldview. This paper proposes a New Manifesto for Scientific Socialism by synthesizing modern condensed matter physics with the non-dual philosophy of Advaita Vedanta. By examining the concepts of Geometric Frustration and Competing Interactions through the lens of Spin-Glasses and Mott Insulators, we argue that social stasis and synthesis are emergent properties of a universal consciousness field rather than mechanical inevitabilities. We further explore how this quantum-informed dialectic resolves the essential tension between the individual and the collective, echoing the intuitions of Schrodinger and Heisenberg regarding the foundational unity of reality.