File spoon-archives/marxism.archive/marxism_1995/95-01-31.000, message 195


Date: Fri, 27 Jan 1995 16:11:37 -0500 (EST)
From: Philip Goldstein <pgold-AT-strauss.udel.edu>
Subject: Re: Marxism and philosophy


	Does anyone want to talk about what happenned to Lenin's 
workingclass philosophy once it was established in Soviet party and 
educational institutions, where the masses were forced to learn it and 
believe it and not dispute it? Does anyone want to talk about Sidney 
Hook's evolution after the thirties, when, far from preserving a 
workingclass orientation, he became a virulent anti-communist and 
anti-Marxist, working for many rightwing organizations? Does anyone want 
to discuss the whole breakdown of so-called public, workingclass 
intellectuals once higher education underwent such major expansion after 
World War II? Or would you rather persist in this nostalgic evocation of 
the radical thirties when workers were still workers and the radical left 
talked philosophy too? 

Philip Goldstein

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