>>> Hugh Rodwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 01/12 7:56 
a completely false wedge
driven between Engels the primitive simpleton (Marx's dupe, fall-guy and
bankroller all in one) 
_______

Charles: On this thread, sometimes it seems
to be the reverse: Marx as
genius but dupe of Engels.

Engels is usually portrayed
as vulgar materialist along
with Lenin, but here they
are calling him an idealist
and theologian.

I think a root of this is
anti-Leninism. It is hard
to get Lenin out of it
without throwing out
Engels too, as they
did most of the work
on the philosophical
issues in dispute on
this thread.

The bourgeois
universities will
tolerate "Marxism"
as long as it
is not Leninism.
In fact, they like to have
"Marxism" in a cage
to study it to
oppose it more effectively.

Charles

I
________

_____




What's more all our worthies forgot that Marx and Engels frequently point
out that revolutionary materialism smuggles its own concept of matter into
the Hegelian concept of God. Or in reality, don't smuggle it in but declare
openly that this concept of matter stands Hegel's idealism on its feet,
transforming it into a powerful combatant in the revolutionary struggle.

I think also that a lot of all this confusion springs from the failure to
come to terms with Stalinism as a consistently and comprehensively
reactionary and treacherous leadership and mass political tendency and set
of social institutions. Any attempt to define dialectical materialism that
considers Stalinist products as prima facie Marxist contributions is hoping
to grow pineapples outdoors at the south pole. It may well be the case that
people working in Stalinist institutions have produced useful stuff --
Lukacs himself is a case in point if you use the right radiation tongs and
protective clothing -- but this must be judged in the light of the genuine
Marxist-Leninist tradition and not the Stalinist perversion of it.

Cheers,

Hugh





>>> Hugh Rodwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 01/12 7:56 
a completely false wedge
driven between Engels the primitive simpleton (Marx's dupe, fall-guy and
bankroller all in one) 
_______

Charles: On this thread, sometimes it seems
to be the reverse: Marx as
genius but dupe of Engels.

Engels is usually portrayed
as vulgar materialist along
with Lenin, but here they
are calling him an idealist
and theologian.

I think a root of this is
anti-Leninism. It is hard
to get Lenin out of it
without throwing out
Engels too, as they
did most of the work
on the philosophical
issues in dispute on
this thread.

The bourgeois
universities will
tolerate "Marxism"
as long as it
is not Leninism.
In fact, they like to have
"Marxism" in a cage
to study it to
oppose it more effectively.

Charles

I
________

_____




What's more all our worthies forgot that Marx and Engels frequently point
out that revolutionary materialism smuggles its own concept of matter into
the Hegelian concept of God. Or in reality, don't smuggle it in but declare
openly that this concept of matter stands Hegel's idealism on its feet,
transforming it into a powerful combatant in the revolutionary struggle.

I think also that a lot of all this confusion springs from the failure to
come to terms with Stalinism as a consistently and comprehensively
reactionary and treacherous leadership and mass political tendency and set
of social institutions. Any attempt to define dialectical materialism that
considers Stalinist products as prima facie Marxist contributions is hoping
to grow pineapples outdoors at the south pole. It may well be the case that
people working in Stalinist institutions have produced useful stuff --
Lukacs himself is a case in point if you use the right radiation tongs and
protective clothing -- but this must be judged in the light of the genuine
Marxist-Leninist tradition and not the Stalinist perversion of it.

Cheers,

Hugh





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