J.V. Stalin has written numerous works. In my estimation, all of them
are scientific and progressive. For Marx, Engels, lenin and Stalin, the
mode of production was the key, determinig influence. It is this
material imperative which ultimately asserts itsself. Marx, Engels,
lenin and Stalin's works necessarily embodied an all-sided materialist
outlook. In this way, they avoided irrationalism and subjectivism,
extremely pervasive phenomena in this era of imperialism and proletarian
revolution.
Shawgi Tell
University at Buffalo
Graduate School of Education
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On Sat, 10 Aug 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In reply to Shawgi Tell:
>
> I wouldn't use Stalin as much of an authority! Engels popularized much, and
> one must take into account the nature of political discourse, certainly not
> a philosophical authority. Marx and Engels have plenty to accommodate
> overdetermination. Overdetermination, by the way, is not a "causation"
> theory, but a theory on the complex nature of theorizing, one which makes
> theory political. Marx, and certainly Lenin, were well aware of the
> political nature of theory.
>
> Antonio Callari
>
> >According to V.I. Lenin:
> >
> > Hitherto, sociologists had found it difficult
> > to distinguish in the complex network of social
> > phenomena which phenomena were important and which
> > unimportant (that is the root of subjectivism in
> > sociology) and had been unable to offer any
> > objective criterion for such a distinction.
> > ("What the 'Friends of the People' Are and How
> > they Fight the Social-Democrats," April 1894, in
> > THE ESSENTIALS OF LENIN, Vol I, London: Lawrence
> > & Wishart, 1947, 82-83)
> >
> >In my estimation, Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin went to great lengths to
> >expose the anti-scientific character of pluralism, a petty-bourgeois trend.
> >They revealed the irrationalism and subjectivism inherent in
> >"multiple-factor 'theories'," always arguing for the scientific
> >reflection of the key, determinig influence. They gave all-sided
> >analyses a scientific character.
> >
> >
> >Shawgi Tell
> >University at Buffalo
> >Graduate School of Education
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> --Antonio Callari
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