Re: [mukto-mona] Leninism is no Marxism

You are very right although I am not sure that Descartes got it fromGautama the Buddha . But Marx, as far as I know, was not aware of the dictum .. Had he known that, he would have stated this. You must not be knowing that Marx read Manu Samhita and we find  the reference in his correspondences. 




From: Kamal Das <kamalctgu@gmail.com>
Sent: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 04:01:06
To: mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [mukto-mona] Leninism is no Marxism
 

"The point is to remember Marx's motto, taken from Descartes: De omnibus dubitandum (doubt everything)." - Descartes might have got the idea from Buddhist dictum which says, "Doubt everything even if I told you."

On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Sankar Kumar Ray <sankarray62@rediffmail.com> wrote:

 

I thought I would refrain myself from the debate about whether Marxism is valid or not.Sadly enough, most of the participants to whom I am too very grateful assume that Marxism has failed. This is a grave misjudgement. From Plekhanov to Lenin-Trotsky, from Stalin to Mao, and from Gramsci-Lucas to Althusser one finds distortion of Marx. Marxism is yet to be applied , except partially in Paris Commune and Spanish Revolution (1930s).

I am giving a link to another piece of mine in Daily Times (must be read critically)

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2013\09\23\story_23-9-2013_pg3_5.

But I want to draw attention of Mukto-mona members to MEGA, the historic project of publishing Marx and Engels, insulated from 'partyocracy. I wrote an introductory on MEGA in kafila.org, but I would suggest all to read

Publishing  Marx and  Engels  after  1989: The fate of the MEGA

Jürgen Rojahn (http://socialhistory.org/sites/default/files/docs/projects/mega-e98.pdf)

Lastly, my knowledge of Marx and Marxism (Leninism etc) is journalistic, not at all profound.
Sankar Ray

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