Why should we, as socialists or Marxists, adopt such a perspective?
In what way does it contribute to the struggle for socialism?
Lew
Lew,
The importance of dialectical materialism to the struggle for
socialism is in my opinion twofold.
First, people like Engles wanted to appeal to the
From Reason
and Revolt: Marxism and Science by Alan Woods and Ted Grant online @
http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~zac/maindex.htm
Marxism and Darwinism
Darwins Gradualism
No Progress?
Marxism and Darwinism
Darwin and Malthus
Social Darwinism
"It is sometimes said that the standpoint of
Comrade Harry,
I would say that part of the answer to your question is that an overall scientific
worldview among the masses of workers is necessary for working class and socialist
consciousness. A scientific worldview cannot be instilled based on consideration of
the history of human society
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Harry Feldman
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Evolutionary (punctuated equilibrium), geological and astronomical
phenomena seem to me to unfold in a dialectical way and if we can
understand such things dialectically, why should we hold back, whether
or not the giants from
G'day Chas,
I reckon you sound like a good historical materialist in this post -
especially here:
"Marx says that the chief defect of all hitherto existing materialism,
Feuerbach included, is that it is contemplative and not active. "
here:
"History is made by active classes"
here:
Comrades,
I'm not too sure what this argument is about.
In my view, it doesn't matter whether we call the kind of reasoning
marxists apply in understanding what's going on around us and how to
intervene most effectively is called 'dialectical materialism',
'materialist dialectics', 'historical
Rob Schaap [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/06/99 10:14AM
G'day Thaxists,
Look, I know we've been through all this before, but it is my conviction
that politics is like a computer. You make an apparently small mistake with
what you put in, and you get an absolute disaster coming out.
To the diamat
Just to follow up , the error of the claims that Engels and Lenin , etc. deviate from
Marx's own method into "ideology" is the exact error that Marx criticizes in the
Theses on Feuerbach. What is being termed "ideology" is actually the activist
component , the "PRACTICAL-critical ACTIVITY"
