“There is no dialectic logic. There are no higher thought forms. There is merely reflection which is wise enough to take account of the fluidity of its subject matter, reflection which understands that terms are not things, nor copies of things, and keeps coming back to things and making new judgements in proportion as the change requires it.”
~Max Eastman
Marxism: Is it Science? Trotsky Defends the Faith
No Dialectic Logic Read More »
“A demonstration that Marxism has all the defining attributes of a religion would be incomplete without a warning against its own peculiar brand of scholasticism.”
~Max Eastman
Marxism: Is it Science? Trotsky Defends the Faith
Religious Scholasticism Read More »
“The belief that such a millennium could be brought into being by ‘some combination of lawyers, business and labor managers, politicians and intellectuals,’ is hard to take seriously.”
~Max Eastman
Reflections on the Failure of Socialism
“When I came home from Europe in 1927 most of my old political friends refused to speak to me on the street. I was a traitor, a renegade, a pariah, a veritable untouchable, so far as the communists were concerned.”
~Max Eastman
Reflections on the Failure of Socialism
“Any state religion, as all the great liberals have pointed out, is death to human freedom.”
~Max Eastman
Reflections on the Failure of Socialism
“Dialectic Materialism, examined at its point of origin, turns out to be the rather naïve, cloudy, unsuccessful and half-minded attempt of a matter-of-fact mind to escape from German metaphysics.”
~Max Eastman
Marxism, Is it Science?, Part 5, Marx’s Effort to be Scientific, The Seed of the Marxian Philosophy
“The ability to rest in doubt, to withhold belief where belief is not warranted by methodological investigation–yet more, to suspend judgement while such investigation is in progress–is indispensable to expert common sense and it is the part most difficult for amateurs to learn.”
~Max Eastman
Marxism, Is it Science?, Part 5, Marx’s Effort to be Scientific, What Science Is
“He (the scientist) is an implacable enemy of the occult. He really wants to know; the magician wants not to know.”
~Max Eastman
Marxism, Is it Science?, Part 5, Marx’s Effort to be Scientific, What Science Is
“If Marx had understood the art of practical thinking, Das Kapital might have been as great a book as the Hegelian Marxists think it is.”
~Max Eastman
Marxism, Is it Science?, Part 4, The Marxian System, Religion in “Das Kapital”
Practical Thinking Read More »
Marx “learned, as all good classical philosophers do, to mix the facts and the animistic presuppositions so intricately that it takes a lifetime to divide them.”
~Max Eastman
Marxism, Is it Science?, Part 4, The Marxian System, Religion in “Das Kapital”
