The CPUSA leaps from one misconception to another. They distort Marx and
Engels' observation that "all history is the history of class struggles." They
see just the form of the class struggle, and not the content of it. **That is,
they do not recognize that classes arise on the foundation o
I have reformatted this essay and copied it onto my web site:
Partisanship and Objectivity in Theoretical Work by Maurice Cornforth
http://www.autodidactproject.org/other/cornforth5.html
I have also uploaded my commentary originally written as an email to these
discussion groups:
Maurice Corn
Please note the correction in the URL for:
Science versus Idealism
In Defence of Philosophy against Positivism and Pragmatism
by Maurice Cornforth
http://www.autodidactproject.org/other/cornforth7/SVI-0.html
Note the subdirectory has been changed to cornforth7.
More to come.
Hello,
I noticed that in his book 'Dialectical Materialism', Cornforth has
seriously distorted the concept of 'dialectical contradiction' in particular.
Compare those parts with Lenin's exposition of 'dialectical contradiction' in
his philosophical notebooks for example. I believe this m
I don't know what is or is not well known about Cornforth.
This essay accuses Cornforth of distorting a number of ideas, including
Lenin's:
"How to Think" (Sojourner Truth Organization)
http://www.autodidactproject.org/other/howtothink.html
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