Chris Doss wrote:
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> I do not believe there have even been idealists of the
> sort Lenin thought he was describing. There has never
> been a philosopher or philosphical movement that held
> the belief that nothing exists outside the human mind.
Well, the Lenin you describe exists only in your mind, so . . .?
The point of Lenin's polemic was to insist on the reality of non-observables -- i.e., of relations, which as Marx points out cannot be observed but only thought. Radical empiricism such as Lenin was attacking denied the reality of such non-observables, thus making systematic thought impossible.
Carrol