Re: Exchanges on Marxism and ecology

["Charles Brown" <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>> Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx> 10/21/99 11:09AM >>>
Brian Basgen wrote:

> >  Einstein was not a Marxist,
>
>   Yes, but he was a dialectical materialist regardless. As Lenin was a
> poor philosopher

This carries on a tradition which I first encountered back in the '70s
in a *Radical America* writer, who referred to "Lenin's philosophically
embarassing *MEC*." But all these references to Lenin as a poor
philosopher assume the priority of philosophy to all other forms of
thought and action. In fact, referring to Lenin as a poor philosopher
is like referring to Einstein as a poor designer of electric stoves.

-clip-

Charles: Was Lenin a poor philosopher or was it a poverty of philosophy itself 
for the
working class , the poor ?

 Engels projected the end of philosophy, all that would remain is formal logic 
and
dialectics.  By Lenin's time, isn't philosophy embarrassing thinking ?

What are the specific embarassments of *MEC*  ? And who are the philosophers 
since
Hegel or Feuerbach who have gotten beyond them ?

CB