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Lenin clearly and unambiguously poses the question of the relationship
between the ‘form’ of materialism and its ‘essence’, of the impermissibility of
identification of the former with the latter. The ‘form’ of materialism is found
in those concrete-scientific ideas about the constitution of matter (about the
‘physical’, about ‘atoms and electrons’) and in natural scientific generalizations
of these ideas that are inevitably turn out to be historically limited, changing,
subject to reconsiderati
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― Intelligent Materialism: Essays on Hegel and Dialectics
― Intelligent Materialism: Essays on Hegel and Dialectics
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The interpenetration of chance and determination bears on the problem of how there can be a scientific approach to society when individual human behavior and consciousness seem unpredictable. Those who despair to point out that people are not machines, that there are subjective processes in the making of decisions, that it is not 'classes' but individuals who make choices. Terms such as "the human factor" or "subjective factors" with their implication of chance and unpredictability are invoked a
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― Biology Under the Influence: Dialectical Essays on Ecology, agriculture, and health
― Biology Under the Influence: Dialectical Essays on Ecology, agriculture, and health
