tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35011209.post7189328294592895067..comments2023-04-23T12:45:31.897+12:00Comments on Chaos Marxism: Aphorism #83Doloras LaPichohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15406903235156602127noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35011209.post-79260648227118444352008-04-19T12:21:00.000+12:002008-04-19T12:21:00.000+12:00Thanks for playing. :)Well, for a start, I'd have ...Thanks for playing. :)<BR/><BR/>Well, for a start, I'd have to say I get a little nervous at the whole concept of "Marxist philosophy" - mainly because, as Old Beardy said, philosophers interpret the world when the point is to change it! If I "booster" Lenin, it's because he combined rigorous intellectual analysis with actually effective political action, which I think is the only way to actually "do" Marxism. Generally, you can tell the cult leaders by the fact that their writing is arrant nonsense and has nothing to do with their actual practice (you ever actually read Mein Kampf, Dianetics, or anything Stalin ever wrote? I wouldn't recommend it).<BR/><BR/>As for my tradition, as I think I said in one of the earliest posts on the blog, I come out of the tradition of Trotsky by way of Tony Cliff - which essentially means an emphasis on bottom up democracy, and also an emphasis that socialism is not the same thing as a state-run economy. However, I've been reading a lot on Cuba recently, and though I'm not convinced yet that Cuba is any sort of model to be followed, I am open to persuasion.<BR/><BR/>Do my articles on the sidebar help to explain the basic ideas of magick?Doloras LaPichohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15406903235156602127noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35011209.post-5031076114486930562008-04-19T09:40:00.000+12:002008-04-19T09:40:00.000+12:00Hi- I've been in the audience for the past several...Hi- I've been in the audience for the past several months, and have been stimulated by and benefited from your posts, though I haven't felt myself in possession of solid enough knowledge of either of the two main currents from which you draw to offer comment (my knowledge of magic is none, and of dialectical materialism, scanty and Mao-oriented). But I guess it's rather un-Marxist of me to continue only reading what you produce, without seeking to engage in the human sensuous activity of production? So, I'm wondering if you could explain to me (beyond your boostering for Lenin), what you think about the general field of dialectical materialist philosophy- in which of its traditions do you see yourself working?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com