Reclaiming Communist Philosophy

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Reclaiming Communist Philosophy

Political ideologies and movements

Author: Wilson W. S. Au

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Collection: Marxist, Socialist, and Communist Studies in Education

Language: English

Published by: Information Age Publishing

Published on: 21st December 2016

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 706 Kb

ISBN: 9781681237459


Unique Approach

This book is unique in its utilization of the natural sciences to explain and illustrate key concepts of communist philosophy. In its recapitulation of the spirit of Engels's unfinished manuscript, The Dialectics of Nature, it relies on the physical sciences developed since Engels's time to reaffirm the validity of materialist dialectics, a point which is more easily made in the context of natural phenomena than it is in social phenomena. The basic philosophical tenets underlying Communist ideology are all supported by the natural sciences.

Context and Tradition

The book is situated within the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist tradition. Its overarching theme is the need to reclaim our most fundamental weapon of that tradition—its methodology or philosophy—which has been vitiated or even scrapped by well-intentioned revolutionaries throughout the 20th century.

Critical Examination of Mao

In particular, some of Mao's philosophical formulations are found to be erroneous and in opposition to his practice. With the rapidly accelerating deterioration of the global capitalist order in progress since 2007, the urgency of this reclamation cannot be over-emphasized.

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