Date: Fri, 24 Nov 1995 18:53:46 -0500 (EST)
From: V600A8E6-AT-ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu
Subject: Re: ON PHILOSOPHY, MARX, ENGELS, LENIN, C.L.R. JAMES




On Fri, 24 Nov 1995 ROSSERJB-AT-vax1.acs.jmu.edu wrote:

>      In response to Ralph Dumain I note that one does
> not have to be a dialectical materialist to be a materialist.
> Again, Marx was a historical materialist, and Engels points
> in the direction of dialectical materialism.  But neither of
> them was a dialectical materialist.  This is a later imposition
> on them by Plekhanov, Lenin, Stalin, etc.
> Barkley Rosser
> 
> 
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Historical materialism is nothing more than the extension of the 
principles of dialectical materialism to the study of history and 
society.  Also, Engels said somewhere that it is not so infinitely 
important what their approach is called - and went on to suggest a couple 
of symonymous terms - as what it represents: the study of nature, 
society and thought via a dialectical method based on materialist theory.


Shawgi Tell
University at Buffalo
Graduate School of Education
V600A8E6-AT-UBVMS.CC.BUFFALO.EDU


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