AHA! That explains it. It's totally partisan.
I used to have a dictionary of philosophy from the 40s in which the entry on Stalin's thought was longer than not only the entry on Plato, but the entry on Marx as well.
--- On Sat, 9/5/09, RicardoStarkey at aol.com <RicardoStarkey at aol.com> wrote:
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> I believe that most dictionaries strive for
> "objectivity." I particularly
> like this one because it accepts dialectical
> materialism as a correct
> method of interpreting reality. It was
> translated from the 4th Russian
> edition, produced by Political Literature Publishers
> (Moscow) in 1980, and it was
> printed in the USSR. It appears that the main
> guy behind it was one Ivan
> Timofeevich Frolov. I got it about 25 years ago
> at Znanie bookstore in San
> Francisco.
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