Soviet philosophy

Justin Schwartz jkschw at hotmail.com
Sun Feb 24 16:51:21 PST 2002



>
>Well, Charles, if your view is that Marx, Engels, and Lenin discovered all
>the truths that need to be said,a nd that all that is left is for this
>truth
>to be popularized, we have very different standards of quality.
>
>^^^^^^^
>
>CB: Not eternal truths, but they have significantly exhausted the truths
>with respect to the philosophy of politics, economics and history , social
>theory, WITH RESPECT TO THE EPOCH OF CAPITALISM. I think there will be a
>need for new social theory once we end capitalism and launch socialism and
>then communism. There will be new contradictions, etc.

Well, bless, Charles, so we don't have to think about society until after the revolution. Well that's certainly a relief, I can just hang up the paper on law, morality, and democracy that I am writing for a meeting here and go in there, read them relevant excepts from Marx and Engels.


>
>Let me be clear and emphatic ( and consistent with Marx and Engels and
>Lenin's attitude) Marxism has pretty much exhausted the relative truths of
>the social theory of this bourgeois period

We are on different planets, sometimes.

jks

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