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Marxism Unmasked from Delusion to Destruction.pdf 7471KB

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eaa the same way when created a certain way; wr cannot establish such<br />

categories of actions for men. Thus, even dioug^ mam* people think<br />

physiological materiahsm is a solution, it actiulh* leads <strong>to</strong> a dead end. If it<br />

were reaUy the solution <strong>to</strong> this problem, it uxHild mean that m any event<br />

we could know the wa>' everyone wxHiki react. We cannot e\'en imagine<br />

what the consequences wx>uld be if evrrv-body knew what cverybod>' else<br />

was going <strong>to</strong> do.<br />

Karl Marx was not a matenaltst in the first sense—the machine sense.<br />

But the physiological idea was very popular m his day. It is not easy <strong>to</strong><br />

know exactly what influenced Marx because he had personal hatreds and<br />

en\'ies. Karl Marx hated Vogt, the exponent of ph>-Mological materialism.<br />

As soon as materialists like Vogt bef^an <strong>to</strong> talk politics, Karl Marx said they<br />

had bad ideas: that meant Marx didn't kke them.<br />

Marx dc\rlopcd what he thought was a new f>item. According <strong>to</strong> hn<br />

materially intcrprrution of his<strong>to</strong>rv*. the **nutena] pn^ductivr forces" (th» is<br />

an exact translation ot the (»erman) arc the bases ol' rvxrything Each stage<br />

of the nuterial pfoductnr forces corrrspondi <strong>to</strong> a definite stage ol' produc-<br />

tion rrbtiom The maienal productivr forces detemune the production<br />

rebtions. that is. the t>'pe of ownership and property which exists m the<br />

\%t>rld And the pntdiKtion rrlationt determine the superstructure In<br />

the (cniufH>l(ig\ ol Marx, capitalism or tetidaltsm air pnxluitKMi rrlaUons.<br />

tuiih t>t ihrv y^-xi nece«saril>- produced bv a panuubr stage ol the<br />

nutcrul pitxluctisT I'orves In IMS**. Karl Marx laid a new stage ol'nuierul<br />

pn>duiti\T tttnes v^xHild prodtKe socultsm<br />

Hut whac are these material productnr forcri' jtat as Marx ne>Tr said<br />

whai J "cUs*" s%a». u> he r»rvTf viui exacth what the "'material pn>ducttvc<br />

Um c\" arc After kiM>king thnnigh ht« vkTitings v^r find that the nuterial<br />

pnHluiiisT lorves are the itK>h and machines In one of his books |AfiW»r<br />

Jf b phtlou^phM"— Ihe IKnrriY W PMcnufk ) | . wmtm in French in 1847,<br />

Marx vjui "ihc hand null poKhnes frtidalmn--the aeam mill produces<br />

iapitali\in "' Mr didn't tas ii in thti> btMik. but m other v^Titings he<br />

(hai iHhcr nuihino will Kkm\e whuh iaiU prtnitKe stxialism<br />

Mar\ crird hard <strong>to</strong> av\>td the geographual interpretation ol'<br />

bciau%e that lud alrrad\ been dmrrdiied What he said wai thai **<strong>to</strong>ob*<br />

^ plr nnHiltn t hr«* miui tkmnrrj U unthi «w« Ir <strong>to</strong>mrr—. Ir mtmdm k vifCM'.<br />

*(H»rt^ j\r\ Ir «jf«uli«(r inJutfrtH" KjH Marx. JUWir ir If pktimtfkte (Kv*<br />

linmrK. IM'i.p !«• ~td\

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