“Marx’s dialectic philosophy, with all its wish to be scientific, and to even out-science the scientists, is a survival of the intellectual machinery with which oversoulful people have kept up, in the face of science, wish-fulfillment thoughts about the world.”
~Max Eastman
Marxism, Is it Science? Part 3, The Religious Heritage, Incidental Benefits of Faith
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“I gave my heart to Lenin more completely than I have to any other leader, and fought for the Bolsheviks on the battlefield of American opinion with all the influence my voice and magazine possessed. From the October revolution until Baron Wrangel was swept out of the Crimea, I was engaged in a civil war, and my socialist convictions grew hard and firm. It took a long time after that, a steady and merciless bombardment of hostile and unanswerable facts, to unsettle them.”
~Max Eastman
Reflections on the Failure of Socialism, Introduction
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Marxism “is superscientific, metaphysical–religious in the truest sense of the term. It is a scheme for reading the ideal purpose of the communists and their plan for achieving it into the objective facts, so that their account of changing the world and their plans for changing it become one and the same thing.”
~Max Eastman
Marxism, Is it Science? Part 3, The Religious Heritage, What Dialectic Meant to Marx and Lenin
“Far from abandoning ‘all philosophy’ for science, Marx did not even abandon Hegel’s philosophy. He merely replaced Hegel’s World Spirit with a World Robot who performs to a different purpose, and without demanding social attentions, all the work which the World Spirit was employed to perform.”
~Max Eastman
Marxism, Is it Science? Part 3, The Religious Heritage, What Dialectic Meant to Marx and Lenin
“To declare that ‘proletariat and wealth are opposites’ is such loose thinking that to us it seems obvious the purpose must be other than the definition of fact with a view to verified knowledge.”
~Max Eastman
Marxism, Is it Science? Part 3, The Religious Heritage, What Dialectic Meant to Marx and Lenin
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“It is impossible, once you have defined ideology as thinking which is unconscious of its motive, to let Marxism continue to hide its motive in an animistic philosophy of the universe. Marxism as a system of dialectic metaphysics IS ideological, just as all transcendental metaphysics is…”
~Max Eastman
Marxism, Is it Science?, Part IV The Marxian System, Marx and Freud
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“It was Marx, not Lenin, who invented the technique of the “front organization,” the device of pretending to be a democrat in order to destroy democracy, the ruthless purging of dissident party members, the employment of false personal slander in this task.”
~Max Eastman
Reflections on the Failure of Socialism. The Religion of Immoralism
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