Actually, it was the Lenin Charles was describing.
Nonobservables and relations are not the same thing, by the way, as I would assume you know, since it is obvious.
--- Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
> >
> 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
>
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