Jim Devine wrote:
> My experience with them and their comrades after that was that they
> were nice people, some of them very smart and interesting to talk to,
> but they were dogmatic. This was also my experience with members of
> other organizations that described themselves as following the
> "Leninist" model, including the Socialist Workers' Party.
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Is not dogmatism an inevitable aspect of assimilating any . . . absolutely .
. . any . . . body of knowledge? For instance, the very first book by Marx
and/or Engels I read, that won me over to their ideas was Ludwig F . . . End
of Classical German Philosophy. This was before reading the Communist
Manifesto and every major and most minor articles by Lenin and Marx. I
believe I was 16 or 17 years old and "Classical" alter forever my mindset.
My understanding 37 years ago was extremely dogmatic to say the least and
this was not because of the character of the political group I was involved
with.
In the 9th grade in High school, I developed a dogmatic view of world
history from the books used in class. The point is that groups that do not
follow a Leninist model of organization, however the groups define Leninism,
suffer from the very same dogmatism. Are not groups of economist dogmatic on
the basis of clinging to various propositions taken as apirori?