Four Lectures on Marxism

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Paul M. Sweezy. Four Lectures on Marxism

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FOUR LECTURES ON MARXISM

[ PAUL M. SWEEZY ]

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The second quotation from Anti-Dühring comes from the Preface to the 1885 edition (seven years after the work was first published in book form):

It is … the polar antagonisms put forward as irreconcilable and insoluble, the forcibly fixed lines of demarcation and distinctions between classes, which have given modern theoretical natural science its restricted and metaphysical character. The recognition that these antagonisms and distinctions are in fact to be found in nature, but only with relative validity, and that on the other hand their imagined rigidity and absoluteness have been introduced into nature only by our minds—this recognition is the kernel of the dialectical conception of nature. (Ibid., p. 19)

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