![]() ![]() You must inoculate younger comrades against its infection.” Pragmatism, empiricism, is the greatest curse of American thought. There is nothing more important than this. “Upon going back to the States”, he urged, “you comrades must at once take up the struggle against Eastman’s distortion and repudiation of dialectical materialism. Trotsky brought forward the name of Max Eastman, who in various works had polemicised against dialectics as a worthless idealist hangover from the Hegelian heritage of Marxism. ![]() We talked about the best ways of studying dialectical materialism, about Lenin’s Materialism and Empirio-Criticism, and about the theoretical backwardness of American radicalism. (This was in the interval between the first and second of Stalin’s stage-managed judicial frame-ups.) At one point Trotsky asked about the philosopher John Dewey, who had joined the American committee set up to obtain asylum for him and hear his case.įrom there our discussion glided into the subject of philosophy, in which, he was informed, I had a special interest. Our conversation was animated there was so much to tell, especially about developments around the Moscow trials. That sunny morning Max Shachtman and I sat with Trotsky in one of the compartments, bringing the exile up to date on what had happened during his enforced voyage from Norway. His party was on the troop-guarded private train sent by the minister of communications to ensure their safe conduct from Tampico to Mexico City. ![]() January 10, 1937-the day after Leon Trotsky and his wife, Natalia Sedova, had landed in Mexico. Trotsky’s Views On Dialectical Materialism George Novack’s Understanding History Trotsky’s Views On Dialectical Materialism ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |