Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 11:55:31 -0500 (EST)
From: ROSSERJB-AT-VAX1.ACS.JMU.EDU
Subject: Re: ON PHILOSOPHY, MARX, ENGELS, LENIN, C.L.R. JAMES


To Jim J.
     Historical materialism is one thing and dialectical
materialism is another, and not Marxian.  Do you support
the application of DM in the case of Lysenko and Vavilov?
If you support DM, how do you stop it from being applied
in such a case in such a way.
     Dialectical materialism was an unnecessary Plekhanov/Lenin 
addition to historical materialism, partly drawing on Engels,
but without Marx.  It is not only repressive, it is plain wrong
when applied to the natural sciences.
Barkley Rosser 


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