Re: [mukto-mona] Re: Please publish

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• Avijit's response to the second para of my e-mail is well taken.
• His response to the third para needs elaborate discussions. I did not ask if Marxism is scientific or not. My question was whether Marx's system of thoughts (let's call it Marxism) is a product of rational thinking or not. A rational thinking process may or may not lead to a scientific theory. We need to keep in mind one more thing: a social, political, or an economic science (they all have received academic recognition) cannot be defined in same way as a natural (physical, biological, etc.) science is defined. Marxism (enriched by Engels and others) is a comprehensive system of thoughts that not only interprets but also prescribes transformation processes with a view to enhancing social, economic, and political lives of the members of the society (de-classed one.) Marxist theories may be wrong and we may not like to call it a science even using the definition of a social, economic, or political science, but one can hardly deny that they were arrived at using a rationalistic approach.
• One fanatic view held by Marxists and Marxians is that Marxism is "the end of history" which means that Marxism will never evolve into (or be replaced by) a better system. All the notorious communist dictators availed this fanatic view as one of the tools to justify and consolidate their power for an unlimited period. It's long story. The bottom line is that Marxism was not revealed to the Marxist theorists from heaven as it "happened" in case of great religions.
• With regard to Avijit's response to para 4 of my e-mail, my only response can be: Avijit has misread me. I have never equated secularists with Jamaatis. But, yes, I see faults in a secularist and an atheist too. How can they be fault free? Are they not human beings? How can a person with 40 years' history of atheism and secularist views speak ills of atheists and secularists?

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