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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