Re: [Marxism] The notion of absolute truth and marxisms - aquestionfor the list

[Asim Akhund <suraj1y_2006@xxxxxxxxx>]

       Dear Comrades,

                                   There is a view that absolute is a religious 
concept,but in truth there are many concepts which are used within religion.Let 
me give an example of fatalism.Fatalism is the concept which means that there 
is a some agency which is making our destiny,but the task of philosophy is to 
demythologise the concepts.In philosophy this concept was demythologised as 
Necessity.So philosophy doesn't create concepts out of nothing.Philosophy is 
the critical reflection of mythological form of consciousness.
                                  In dialectis the concepts of absolute and 
relative are not used within religious context.In fact,Engels in his book 
"Dialectics of Nature" has used these trems in a dialectical way.Absolute in 
dialectics doesn't mean as perfect,fixed and given for all times,but the very 
movment of some category.As I have already given the example of Marx's 
"Capital".I think Marx in his work Capital has tried to resolve the mystery of 
the category of Capital and in his work the category of capital is absolute in 
the sense that from the very beginning to the end he is doing nothing but 
trying to see the development and process of the very capital itself.

                                Instead of absolute and relative one can use 
the categories of abstract and concrete.But the categories of whole and part 
are also applicable in cognising the concepts of absolute and relative.

                                                                                
 Asim Akhund


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