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Your logic is strange. Some theories cannot be tested in practice.
For example, "God is great" is a part of almost all religions and not
testable. Other theories can be tested only by special experiments.
Is the failure of the world revolution over the last 150 years a
suitable experiment of the correctness of weaving into practice the
notion of dialectics? In fact, many great and wonderful things have
been done by people who held obviously incorrect or unverifiable
theories. In your case, how can we know that dialectics (or, say,
Lenin's version of that notion) necessarily poisons revolutionary
practice?
I would like to ask whether the Cuban revolution and/or the Russian
revolution was an experiment which might decide whether dialectics is
a useful notion or not.
--rod
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On Feb 4, 2010, at 7:42 PM, Rosa Lichtenstein wrote:
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> The abject failure of dialectical marxism over that last 150
> (across the
> planet, not just in the Americas) can *partly* be blamed on this
> mystical
> theory.
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> Perhaps you disagree that theory is not tested in practice? If you
> do *not*,
> then the conclusion is inescapable: practice has refuted dialectical
> materialism. Either that, or truth is not tested in practice. Which
> is it?
>
> Anyway, you can read the proof here:
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> *http://anti-dialectics.co.uk/page%20010_01.htm*
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> *http://anti-dialectics.co.uk/page%2009_02.htm*<http://anti-
> dialectics.co.uk/page%2009_02.htm>
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