I thought similarly. What about Bhakar , before he became idealist ? Is that the way to spell it ? I was on a list. It sounded like sort of dialectical materialism to me, but the people interested in it didn't cop to that. There were a whole lot of people interested in it.
CB Ralph Dumain Encyclopedia entries like these can always be improved upon. There is one paragraph in this one which puzzles me. See below. Examples would have helped. Of course there have been philosophers interested in dialectical materialism as an ontology independent of its political marxist ramifications. Some of these were not explicit marxists; others were sympathetic; some were Marxists; some were dialectical materialists, some not. I can't think of anyone offhand who declared himself a dialectical materialist without being a Marxist. But you never know. The reader, though, can't get much sense out of this paragraph without further explanation. At 06:06 PM 1/17/2006 -0500, Charles Brown wrote: >Dialectical materialism > >Jump to: navigation ><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectical_materialism#column-one> >While dialectical materialism has been traditionally associated almost >exclusively with Marxism, some claim that the philosophy is applicable to a >non-Marxist worldview <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldview> as well. >There is nothing in either the concept of dialectic as elaborated by Hegel >or in materialism itself which requires Marxism. However, because Marxism is >essentially free of traditional theological influences, it is particularly >well-suited to dialectical materialism, and a comparable political system >based on the philosophy has not yet emerged. _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
