On Mon, Dec 22, 2025 at 07:28 PM, Jim Farmelant wrote: > > Lenin’s characterization of Philipp Frank as a “Kantian” in Materialism and > Empirio-Criticism reflects a polemical usage in which any refusal to ground > science in a metaphysical doctrine of matter is assimilated to idealism.
Lenin is polemical – good! Then you brand Lenin as pushing a metaphysical doctrine of matter. Your adjective is groundless. "Matter is a philosophical category denoting the objective reality which is given to man by his sensations, and which is copied, photographed and reflected by our sensations, while existing independently of them." (CW 14, p. 130) You can venture an improvement, elaboration, qualification of Lenin's definition, but there is nothing metaphysical about it. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#39804): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/39804 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/116902646/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
