I've put one more chapter and one section of another chapter online:
Science versus Idealism
In Defence of Philosophy against Positivism and Pragmatism
by Maurice Cornforth
16. Positivism in Sociology and Politics
section: Positivism and Sociology
http://www.autodidactproject.org/other/cornforth7/SVI-16b.html
19. Features of a Reactionary Philosophy
http://www.autodidactproject.org/other/cornforth7/SVI-19.html
It's too much work for me to do the whole book, but these are other prime
candidates for digitization:
13. Dialectical Materialism
17. "Unified Science"
18. Pragmatism
This has been quite an educational experience. I'm gaining further
clarification both on the attraction and on the weaknesses of the diamat
perspective in this particular era. As embarrassed as I get revisiting
this tired old subject matter, there are new historical insights to be
gained. My perspective is rather different from the @nti-dialectics web
site, but something more has to be said about where diamat went wrong as a
constructive philosophy, and to what extent it was effective or clumsy as a
critical tool combatting the multitudinous obfuscations of bourgeois
philosophy. I have a detailed critique in mind. More to come.
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