“Animistic thinking consists essentially in trying by some sort of hocus-pocus to transfer your own wishes into the external world, and so get them realized. It is emotional and ceremonial and soon becomes institutionalized…”
~Max Eastman
Marxism, Is it Science?, Part IV, The Marxian System, The Belief in Dialectic Materialism
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“In Das Kapital, as in The Holy Family, the force which guarantees the evolution of capitalism to the point of rupture, and the creation of a communist state, is that same logical necessity of ascending from the lower to the higher which Hegel laid on the whole Universe in the name of God.”
~Max Eastman
Marxism, Is it Science?, Part IV, The Marxian System, Religion in “Das Capital”
“These oversoulful people have not wanted to deny science or deprive themselves of its benefits, but neither have they wanted to commit themselves to its methods of acquiring knowledge and above all to the limitations of knowledge which those methods imply. They have used the faculty of ideation not only in order to change real things in an ideal direction, but also in order to make themselves comfortable among things-as-they-are by thinking up ideal ways of conceiving them.”
~Max Eastman
Marxism, Is it Science? Part III The Religious Heritage, Chapter 2 Hegel’s Contribution
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