Carrol, I would argue with you but Bukharin said it better: "No doubt, if we start with the fact that it is only a class theory of the proletariat that can be objectively correct, a mere revelation of the bourgeois character of any specific theory, is, strictly speaking sufficient to justify it's rejection. At bottom, this is a correct attitude, for Marxism claims it's general validity precisely for the reason that it is the theoretical expression of the most advanced class, whose "needs" of knowledge are far more audacious than those of the conservative and therefore narrow-minded mode of thought of the ruling class of society. Yet it is quite clear that the correctness of this assumption should be proved precisely in the struggles of the ideologies themselves, and particluarly, by a logical criticism. Of the theories of our opponents A sociological characterization of a certain theory, therefore, does not relieve us of the responsibility of waging war against even in the field of purely logical criticism."
Preface to the russian edition of the economic theory of the leisure class
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