RE: [Marxism] Banal Platitudes and Marxism-Clulesslism (was Re: Diabolical and Histerical Materialism)

["Nestor Gorojovsky" <nestorgoro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Respuesta a: RE: [Marxism] Banal Platitudes and 
Remitido por: Zivko Vukolaj
Fecha: Domingo 9 de Enero de 2005 
Hora: 13:41
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> 
> Where I come from, people used to be tought Marxism from primary
> school, and yes, Marx, Engels, and Lenin all occupied mandatory
> readings [Stalin never occupied more then a footnote.]. However, can
> we really say that through this their writings won millions upon
> millions to Marxism? Certainly not, as almost any honnest person here
> who comes from the old socialist camp can testify. My own children
> [who are now fine academics in the Marxist tradition], like countless
> others, used to literally run away from 'Marxism' classes to escape
> what they saw as the fatal boredom of those lessons. The classes
> ultimately proved themselves to be a very rude practical joke on
> Marxism. Consequently, professorship in Marxism also occupied the
> saddest position in the academia.


Maybe not even Marxism can stand unharmed the fact of becoming an 
"official" ideology.  Perhaps we shall have to wait for some 
centuries before it becomes as "common sense" as, for example, 
realism and empyricist materialism is in the Anglo Saxon world, or 
Cartesian rationalism in France.

Who knows, while it remains some kind of "civics" it will have to be 
the worst regarded area in academia.  Not surprising, for a Marxist:  
even if Marxism were taught in its fullness, not in schematic 
booklets, etc., the Academia is, by definition, a privileged sector 
in a transitional society towards socialism.

So that this that Zivko comments may be the fate of Marxism in the 
Academia for a long time, at least while state coertion is necessary 
to impose the rule of the majorities over the minorities.

I am really very interested in this "Marxism in the Eastern Academia" 
issue.

Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky
nestorgoro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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