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"philosophers have only interpreted the world; the point, however, is to change it."

how things change

Marx wins

(Published: 2005-07-19 08:42 AM)
Forum topic on the outcome of the BBC poll.

marx way ahead

(Published: 2005-07-19 08:39 AM)
Forum topic about the BBC poll for the world's greatest philosopher.

Innovative self-destruction

(Published: 2005-07-19 08:37 AM)
Forum topic

We need marx

(Published: 2005-07-19 08:34 AM)
Forum topic

Capital Reviewed

(Published: 2005-07-19 08:29 AM)
review of Wheen's biography of Marx. Forum topic.

why Marx is man of the moment

(Published: 2005-07-19 06:56 AM)
The result of this week's BBC poll suggests that Marx's portrayal of the forces that govern our lives - and of the instability, alienation and exploitation they produce - still resonates, and can still bring the world into focus. Far from being buried under the rubble of the Berlin Wall, he may only now be emerging in his true significance. For all the anguished, uncomprehending howls from the right-wing press, Karl Marx could yet become the most influential thinker of the 21st century.

Hegel and the Pseudo-Left - Three postings discussing Hegel's 1886 statement "All that is real is rational; and all that is rational is real", in relation to current pseudo-left ideology.

(Published: 2005-06-15 12:00 AM)

all that is solid melts into air

(Published: 2005-02-23 12:32 AM)
forum discussion

all that is holy is profaned

(Published: 2005-02-23 12:30 AM)
forum discussion

Dialectics

(Published: 2004-12-19 12:00 AM)
Forum topic (launched December 2004)
External link: disc/members/850249180673

Engels and Marx - Historical Method - The great basic thought that the world is not to be comprehended as a complex of readymade things, but as a complex of processes, in which the things apparently stable no less than their mind images in our heads, the concepts, go through an uninterrupted change of coming into being and passing away, in which, in spite of all seeming accidentally and of all temporary retrogression, a progressive development asserts itself in the end — this great fundamental thought has, especially since the time of Hegel, so thoroughly permeated ordinary consciousness that in this generality it is now scarcely ever contradicted. But to acknowledge this fundamental thought in words and to apply it in reality in detail to each domain of investigation are two different things.

(Published: 2004-11-10 12:00 AM)

Things, Processes, Dialectics, Individuals - Engels describes how understanding processes is a higher form of knowledge than understanding things, and that the things “... go through an uninterrupted change of coming into being and passing away, in which, in spite of all seeming accidentally and of all temporary retrogression, a progressive development asserts itself in the end”. Much of the commentary about Iraq is from commentators who understand some things, more or less, but do not understand the whole process in the same way that we understand it. Hence there might even be agreement about most of the facts but the interpretation of the facts might vary depending on our understanding of historical process and how some things can turn into their opposites in certain conditions (dialectics).

(Published: 2004-01-21 12:00 AM)
A discussion from the old LastSuperpower forum that was stimulated by an excerpt from Engels' article "Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy"

Engels on Hegel - all that is real is rational; and all that is rational is real. "Just as in France in the 18th century, so in Germany in the 19th, a philosophical revolution ushered in the political collapse. But how different the two looked! The French were in open combat against all official science, against the church and often also against the state; their writings were printed across the frontier, in Holland or England, while they themselves were often in jeopardy of imprisonment in the Bastille. On the other hand, the Germans were professors, state-appointed instructors of youth; their writings were recognized textbooks, and the termination system of the whole development — the Hegelian system — was even raised, as it were, to the rank of a royal Prussian philosophy of state! Was it possible that a revolution could hide behind these professors, behind their obscure, pedantic phrases, their ponderous, wearisome sentences? Were not precisely these people who were then regarded as the representatives of the revolution, the liberals, the bitterest opponents of this brain-confusing philosophy?"

(Published: 2003-06-15 12:00 AM)
This is part 1 of Frederick Engels' article "Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy. (1886)
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Last modified 2005-01-04 06:44 AM
 

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