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
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