Teodor Oizerman, who was the big Marxist-Leninist history of philosophy theorist in the USSR, wrote an interesting book about this a couple of years ago. It's kind of his mea culpa for his then-role as ideologue, combined with a defense of Marx against "professional anti-Marxists," and an attack on Leninism. I doubt it will ever be tralsted. It's amazing the extent to which Russian and Western scholars don't talk to each other. (The book is Marksizm i Utopizm, BTW.)
--- Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> wrote:
>
> It is precisely what I find objectionable in Marxism
> - it became faith true
> by definition, and ceased to be empirical science.
> If a hypothesis cannot
> be disproved by evidence, it becomes a religious
> dogma. That is fine if
> someone is looking for religion, but I personally
> have little interest in
> it.
>
>
Nu, zayats, pogodi!
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