Category: philosophy

Against Etymological Politics: Marxism is not a politics of naming, moral signalling, or linguistic purity. It is a scientific method and a guide to revolutionary practice. Lenin defined it with absolute clarity: “Concrete analysis of concrete conditions.” Any approach that replaces this method with wordplay is not Marxism, but idealism in radical disguise. The liberal…

I. THE FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION OF PHILOSOPHY“The question of the relation of thinking to being, the relation of the spirit to nature” (lfecgp) is what Engels identifies as “the paramount question of the whole of philosophy” (lfecgp). This fundamental question divides all philosophers into two great camps, and the answer given determines the entire character of…

II. THE OLD METHODS OF THOUGHTA. IdealismIdealism asserts that spirit, thought, or the concept is the primary reality from which material existence derives. In its most developed form, idealism holds that “thinking and its thought-product, the idea, is here the primary, nature the derivative, which only exists at all by the condescension of the idea”…