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Why is Marxism a better kind of philosophy?
Marxism gets to grips with how things really are and how they change, explains the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
The recent calls to strip Michelle Mone of her peerage after she was caught scamming the public for £122 million should reinvigorate the longstanding progressive demand to completely abolish the entire undemocratic, corrupt relic, writes ELLIOT TONG
As gold hits $4,000 per ounce, soaring from only $250 back in 2001, the US national debt has reached $37 trillion — it’s all about to come crashing down, warns JOHN ELLISON, which our leaders would have known had they only studied Marx’s magnum opus Capital
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In simple terms because it engages with the real world and its origins, interactions and change, not (or not merely) with abstractions.
The first chapter of Bertrand Russell’s The Problems of Philosophy (1912, and still used as an introduction to philosophy) titled Appearance and Reality asks whether the table that we sit at corresponds to what we experience with our senses. It concludes: “Doubt suggests that perhaps there is no table at all.”
The book’s final sentence reads: “Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions, since no definite answers can, as a rule, be known to be true, but rather for the sake of the questions themselves.”
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