"Objective Reality"
Dan Clore
quotations, that "Anyone who wishes to will be able to
extend this list of quotations indefinitely." I've extended
the list accordingly. All source texts can be found easily
with google searches, so I haven't bothered to document
them.
As Lenin said: "Marx's theory is the objective truth.
Following the path of this theory, we will approach the
objective truth more and more closely, while if we follow
any other path we cannot arrive at anything except confusion
and falsehood. From the philosophy of Marxism, cast of one
piece of steel, it is impossible to expunge a single basic
premise, a single essential part, without deviating from
objective truth, without falling into the arms of
bourgeois-reactionary falsehood."
And Lenin again: "The criterion of practice, i.e., the
course of development of all capitalist countries in the
last few decades, proves only the objective truth of Marx's
_whole_ social and economic theory in general, and not
merely of one or another of its parts, formulations, etc.;
it is clear that to talk here of the 'dogmatism' of the
Marxists is to make an unpardonable concession to bourgeois
economics. The sole conclusion to be drawn from the opinion
held by Marxists that Marx's theory is an objective truth is
that by following the _path_ of Marxian theory, we shall
draw closer and closer to objective truth (without ever
exhausting it); but by following _any other path_ we shall
arrive at nothing but confusion and lies."
As Trotsky said: "We call our dialectic materialist, since
its roots are neither in heaven nor in the depths of our
'free will', but in objective reality, in nature."
As Stalin said: "Contrary to idealism, which asserts that
only our consciousness really exists, and that the material
world, being, nature, exists only in our consciousness' in
our sensations, ideas and perceptions, the Marxist
philosophical materialism holds that matter, nature, being,
is an objective reality existing outside and independent of
our consciousness; that matter is primary, since it is the
source of sensations, ideas, consciousness, and that
consciousness is secondary, derivative, since it is a
reflection of matter, a reflection of being; that thought is
a product of matter which in its development has reached a
high degree of perfection, namely, of the brain, and the
brain is the organ of thought; and that therefore one cannot
separate thought from matter without committing a grave
error."
And Stalin again: "Contrary to idealism, which denies the
possibility of knowing the world and its laws, which does
not believe in the authenticity of our knowledge, does not
recognize objective truth, and holds that the world is full
of 'things-in-themselves' that can never be known to
science, Marxist philosophical materialism holds that the
world and its laws are fully knowable, that our knowledge of
the laws of nature, tested by experiment and practice, is
authentic knowledge having the validity of objective truth,
and that there are no things in the world which are
unknowable, but only things which are as yet not known, but
which will be disclosed and made known by the efforts of
science and practice."
And Stalin again: "Lenin defends the well-known materialist
thesis of which our scientific knowledge of the laws of
nature is authentic knowledge, and the laws of science
represents objective truth. Hence the sciences of the
history of society, despite all the complexity of the
phenomena of social life, can become as precise a science as
biology and capable of making use of the law of development
of society for practical purposes."
As Mao said: "Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin have taught us
that it is necessary to study conditions conscientiously and
to proceed from objective reality and not from subjective
wishes; but many of our comrades act in direct violation of
this truth."
And Mao again: "We are Marxists, and Marxism teaches that in
our approach to a problem we should start from objective
facts, not from abstract definitions, and that we should
derive our guiding principles, policies and measures from an
analysis of these facts."
As Enver Hoxha said: "What does the experience, what does
the life show? The experience and life both before and after
1955 show that in the assessment of the Yugoslav question
Stalin and the Information Bureau were right, because their
assessment rested on objective facts, on the teachings of
Marxism-Leninism. The experience and the practical life, on
the other hand, show that in their stand towards Tito's
revisionist clique N. Khrushchev and those who follow him
are not right, because their actions are based on subjective
viewpoints and are contrary to the teachings of
Marxism-Leninism, contrary to the objective reality."
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Dan Clore
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> I said before,
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