“Materialism and the Dialectical Method” by Maurice Cornforth
December 30th, 2011
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PART ONE: MATERIALISM
“The services rendered by Marx and Engels to the working class may be expressed in a few words thus: they taught the working class to know itself and be conscious of itself, and they substituted science for dreams,” wrote Lenin. [7•1]
1. Party Philosophy
Party Philosophy and Class Philosophy
Every philosophy expresses a class outlook. But in contrast to the exploiting classes, which have always sought to uphold and justify their class position by various disguises and falsifications, the working class, from its very class position and aims, is concerned to know and understand things just as they are, without disguise or falsification.
The party of the working class needs a philosophy which expresses a revolutionary class outlook. The alternative is to embrace ideas hostile to the working class and to socialism.
This determines the materialist character of our philosophy. Read more…
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