I guess Somerville was not a CP member, but it seems he was a fellow traveller of some sort. The problem is that the same deficiencies in this area accrue to a number of tribes--Stalinists, Trotskyists, Maoists--so no one tendency is responsible.
Once in a while, somebody tries something a little different in the area of marxist education. Here's an interesting specimen:
"How to Think" (Sojourner Truth Organization) http://www.autodidactproject.org/other/howtothink.html
At 09:11 PM 2/26/2005 -0500, Jim Farmelant wrote:
> > BTW, what awful book and who was John Somerville? > > He was an American philosopher who wrote studies of > Soviet philosophy, most particularly his book, > * Soviet Philosophy: A Study of Theory and Practice*.
BTW in case you were interested, here is a later piece that I found online by Somerville:
Somerville, J. (1967) "The Nature of Reality: Dialectical Materialism" (pp. 3-32). In The Philosophy of Marxism: An Exposition. Minneapolis: Marxist Educational Press.
http://www.comnet.ca/~pballan/Somerville(1967).htm > > He was, I believe, one of the first American philosophers > to investigate developments in Soviet philosophy. > > > BTW, Sidney Hook's famous attack on Somerville, > "Philosophy and the Police," is available online, providing > that you are willing to shell out some bucks to The Nation.
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