On 3/23/10, waistli...@aol.com <waistli...@aol.com> wrote: > Objective & Subjective (object and subject):: > > object refers to everything outside the human mind or the subject as human. > Reality, say a tree, an automobile or the sun has an objective existence > outside the human mind or the life of the human mind, not requiring or > owning its existence to the mind. Marxism contends that social system - > capitalism, and things existing outside the mind have an objective existence > and > contains objective laws of operations. > > Things exist in reality as objects unto themselves, interwoven into the > fabric of reality, but independent of the ‘observer’ or subject and their > subjective understanding at a given moment. In recognition of the inherent > subjective limitations of the individual human mind, we say "keep an open > mind." None of this is meant to imply we do not react upon things in our > environment as they in turn react upon us.
^^^^^^^ CB: Lenin defines materialism as the belief in the existence of objective reality, objective reality being defined as you do above. > > This email was cleaned by emailStripper, available for free from > _http://www.papercut.biz/emailStripper.htm_ > (http://www.papercut.biz/emailStripper.htm) > > _______________________________________________ > Marxism-Thaxis mailing list > Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu > To change your options or unsubscribe go to: > http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis > _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
