Dialectical Materialism and Communism Quotes

“A ‘system’ is always something finite, limited, transitory, a too narrow framework for the infinite dialectical movement of the world, and even in the case of the great philosophies it was always their ‘system’ which most quickly became out of date; what remained of them was always the dialectical content which was often hidden in their work in spite of the ‘system’.”
― L. Rudas, Dialectical Materialism and Communism

“whoever wants Communism without the social revolution and without proletarian dictatorship, whoever rejects the strategy of the Communists, - his sympathy with Communism may be the expression of dissatisfaction with the existing order, but it can be nothing more.”
― L. Rudas, Dialectical Materialism and Communism

“Idealistic philosophy considers everything which is proved ‘only’ by practice as not ‘wholly’, not ‘fully’ established, in fact as second rate, and it acknowledges as truth only what is ‘deduced’ out of the ‘eternal principles’ of reason.”
― L. Rudas, Dialectical Materialism and Communism

“‘Human nature’ therefore changes together with the development of society and as long as society is divided into classes ‘human nature’ changes also with the classes to which its owners belong. The ‘nature’ of a capitalist is necessarily different from that of a Roman slave-holder or a feudal lord; and the ‘nature’ of a proletarian is again different, not only from that of a slave or a serf, but also from that of a bourgeois or a peasant of our own epoch.”
― L. Rudas, Dialectical Materialism and Communism

“In the first place, there is no such thing as ‘human nature’ in general, without further qualification, equally the same and invariable for all historical periods and classes.”
― L. Rudas, Dialectical Materialism and Communism