[lbo-talk] A time of doubt for atheists

[Tommy Kelly]

Jim wrote:
"Dialectical materialism -- or what might better be termed Marxian ontology
and epistemology or critical realism -- might be a religion, but need not
be."

When it comes to the topic of dialectics, I tend to agree with Noam Chomsky:

	"Dialectics is one that I've never understood, actually - I've just
never understood what the word means.  Marx doesn't use it, incidentally,
it's used by Engels.|...| I haven't the foggiest idea what it is.  It seems
to mean something about complexity, or alternative positions, or change, or
something.  I don't know." [p228 "Understanding Power"]