Suchergebnisse

Jumpstarting the class struggle -- Toward a new dialectics of race -- The decolonial nation in motion -- Latin American dialectics and the other -- Venezuela's combative dialectics

In an article (title not give) by D. Ruben appearing in Critique (1974, 4), a main conclusion was that Marxism must consider incorporating common-sense elements of the foundationalist view & reconsider the rejection of reality as given. Ruben arrives at his conclusion with the unproven proposition that there is a "world-as-it-is-in-itself," which may be known. But this must be established & discussed in relation to historical materialism. Ruben recommends an empiricist epistemology merely because he favors it, & rejects the dialectical relation between thought & reality. He fails to see that concepts & categories change, & goes on to misinterpret Kant. He sees objective & subjective traditions in opposition because he criticizes dialectics on positivistic grounds & then criticizes empiricism on dialectical grounds. Ruben's pure reflections on reality & thought are one-directional & devoid of movement, & therefore, outside the dialectical tradition of Lenin & others. L. Kamel.