[Marxism] Marxism

[Anthony Boynton <northbogota@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello, again.

Just a note of support to Jurriaan Bendien?s remarks
on Marxism posted  Mon, 17 Jan 2005 16:00:45 +0100.
Jurriaan wrote, and I strongly agree,

?If Marxism has no future, the mean reason would be,
that Marxists insist
that what Marx says is a priori immune to logical and
evidential critique,
making Marxism a closed metaphysical system of faith
incapable of further
development in the light of new experience, a system
according to which
all new findings are assimilated by analogy to sacred
texts from the past.?

Marx, and Engels, Lenin et. al. were mere human
beings, no matter how great their contributions to
human understanding, or to social revolution. Their
knowledge and opinions were limited by their time and
place in history. Turning their revolutionary
tradition into an ideology ? every period and comma is
true and can not be changed in light of new
discoveries ? has proven to be disastrous to the
revolutionary tradition.

All the best, Anthony




                
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