[lbo-talk] Soviet Philosophy

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Vygotsky. Though he was a psychologist, and neither
Lenin nor Trotsky were philosophers. Lenin wrote and
published one book of philosophy that is OK, but would
not secure his memory if that was all he had done. He
wrote some notebooks on Hegel that have some useful
insights. Trotsky participated in a philosophical
debate with Dewey in which he did OK, but did not make
any significant contribution to philosophy.

There were some Soviet philosophers, strictly so
called, who did some good work, though they are little
known in the English speaking countries. A lot of them
worked ons traight philosophical topics rather than
Marxism-Leninism, which was a minefield. Good people
stayed away from it. But Anglo-Am philosophers don't
knwo who's considered hot in, e.g., Italy, Spain, or
the Netherlands, and only a bit about who's hot in
France and Germany.

--- joanna bujes <jbujes at covad.net> wrote:
> Thomas wrote:
> 
> "Two hundred years from now people will still read
> Nietzche.  Will anyone, except perhaps a handful of
> specialists interested in 20th century mythologies,
> read ANY Soviet philosopher?"
> 
> They'll be reading Lenin, Trotsky, that
> linguist/psychologist whose name starts with "V" --
> I just can't remember...aagh.
> 
> Joanna
> 
> 
> 
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