File spoon-archives/marxism.archive/marxism_1994/marxism_15-28Aug.94, message 107


Date: Mon, 22 Aug 1994 14:50:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: Stephen Grossman <SGROSSMAN-AT-umassd.edu>
Subject: Re: "Objectivism"


Date: Sun, 21 Aug 1994 23:23:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: Alex Trotter <uburoi-AT-panix.com>
Subject: "Objectivism"

>The only person I can think of who was as gung ho for objective 
>epistemology as Ayn Rand was...V.I. Lenin.

Traditional objectivity (from Plato, Aristotle): ideas in reality revealed to 
passive mind.

Marx, being a Kantian, basically held that ideas were subjective to active 
mind  whose activity distorted reality. Marx simply modified Kantian 
subjectivity with economics (as Nazis did with race).

Rand's radical objectivity: ideas are reality as volitionally and logically 
processed by active mind whose activity is method of knowing reality. 

>Leninism and Libertarianism--as different as Coke and Pepsi. 

As similar as two sodas: both reject reason as absolute.

>Oppose one ideology with another? Why bother? Hang all ideologies!
 
Ideology is human cognitive need of survival. Even Marx knew this.


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