The central purpose of this paper will be to highlight the methodology of dialectics. I have been drawn to this methodology not out of prejudice or expediency but because of my intention to demystify the 'appearance of things' and my commitment to social transformation. The dialectical methodology is addressed only after undertaking a thorough critique of various modes of theory-construction, from post- empirical positivism to post-structuralism. I found these approaches limited both epistemologically and because of a lack of commitment to social change. Both of these characteristics have rendered such theory- construction favourable to the reproduction of the hegemony. While the former does so by way of undermining the 'knowing subject' and the imagination of human kind', the latter does it by reproducing the status quo. Both of these characteristics, moreover, relate to the role played by the 'organic intellectuals' (i. e. intellectuals related to a particular social group), who tend to reproduce the 'world-view' of the social group they represent. In this context, critics of hegemony themselves become part of the political campaign to construct a counter-hegemony. This counter- hegemony, while standing in contradistinction to the hegemony organised by the dominant or ruling class, seeks to overcome the power of the dominant or ruling class in the state. Indeed, the central thrust of this paper is to put forward the view that methodology or theory- construction itself is political.