[lbo-talk] Bertrand Russell "Considered purely as a philosopher, Marx has grave shortcomings.

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Bertrand Russell
"Considered purely as a philosopher, Marx has grave shortcomings. He
is too practical, too much wrapped up in the problems of his time. His
purview is confined to this planet, and, within this planet, to Man.
It has been evident that Man has not the cosmic importance which he
formerly arrogated to himself. No man who has failed to assimilate
this fact has a right to call his philosophy scientific. Marx
professed himself an atheist, but retained a cosmic optimism which
only theism could justify."

-Bertrand Russell "A History of Western Philosophy" (1945) Book Three,
Part II, Chapter XXVII Karl Marx p.788