Religion
Science is…
Science is: “patience in investigation and clarity in calculation; singleness of purpose; the power to suspend judgement, to remain, if need be, for a lifetime in doubt…” ~Max Eastman
Philosophy
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Tyranny
The Crime of Socrates
“The crime of Socrates was deeper than disobedience to the laws of the state. It was disobedience to the laws of animistic thinking.” ~Max Eastman
Socialism
Dialectic Thinking?
“Not only is there no such thing as dialectic thinking, but there is no such superintellectual knowledge of the exact nature of the universe as that to which an alleged dialectic thinking pretends to give access.” ~Max Eastman
Marxism
Dialectic Philosophy
“Marx’s dialectic philosophy, with all its wish to be scientific, and to even out-science the scientists, is a survival of … wish-fulfillment thoughts about the world.” ~Max Eastman
Dialectic
Unspoken Assumption
For Lenin “an underlying, always unspoken assumption that the new is going to be what he wants it to be…” ~Max Eastman
Socialism
Romantic Philosophy
“There is no intellectual question of more importance to the future of American culture than the question whether we are going to conduct our social efforts in the name of science, or are going to swallow down this romantic philosophy” ~Max Eastman
Marxism
Dialectic Metaphysics IS Ideological
“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…”
~Max Eastman