to CB
Right, I hear the same language.
Oudeyis
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Forum for the discussion of theoretical issues raised by Karl Marx
andthe thinkers he inspired'" <marxism-thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu>
Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 16:25
Subject: [Marxism-Thaxis] O, Dialectics!
Victor victor
Of course objectivity reality exists, but we have to realize that what
Marx,
Lenin and other intelligent Marxists like Ilyenkov meant by objective
reality is not reality contemplated by some totally uninvolved
philosophical being. Just the reverse is true objective reality is only
known through what Lenin calls "revolutionary practice", the
transformation
of one object into another through labour. It is only when we know how
and
under what conditions (including of course our own activities) an object
becomes something else that we cognize its real character. This is as
true
of the child knocking about a gewgaw hanging over his crib as it is for
the
physicist smashing atoms.
There is virtually no aspect of human knowledge (not human activity) that
is
truly a priori.
Oudeyis
^^^^^^
CB: Yes,in saying that objective reality exists, I did indicate any break
with The Theses on Feuerbach ,esp. 1, 2 and 11 here. Marx distinguishes
his
materialism from all those hitherto existing by by making the subject
active not contemplative, like Feuerbach. Practice is the test of theory,
otherwise it's scholastic. Philosophers have interpreted the world, the
thing is to change it.
Lenin's _Materialism and Empirio-Criticism_ is thoroughly infused with
Engels' elaboration of these principles in _Anti-Duhring_.
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