Word: aleksandrov
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Dates: during 1947-1947
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Charged Zhdanov: "His objectivist conceptions he consistently carried out through the entire book. It is not accidental that Comrade Aleksandrov, before starting to criticize any bourgeois philosopher, pays tribute to his merits, burning incense before...
...that was not the worst of it. Continued Zhdanov: "It so happened that Comrade Aleksandrov's book received recognition from the majority of our top philosophical workers, and received numerous favorable reviews. This means that all these others also share Aleksandrov's mistakes. That bespeaks an unsafe condition on our theoretical front. . . . Such conceptions if developed here would unavoidably lead to objectivism-to slavishness to bourgeois philosophers and overstating of their merits, thus depriving our philosophy of its militant advancing spirit...
Objectivism. What was the objectionable "objectivism?" In Aleksandrov's case, it was merely the familiar polemical device of building 'em up before knocking 'em down. He had used this technique on Bacon, Descartes, Spinoza, Kant, Fichte, Hegel. But he had also been found guilty of playing with metaphysics, a reprehensible sin in Russia, and he had depicted Marxism as an evolution from earlier philosophy. Thundered Zhdanov: "The origin of Marxism was a real discovery, a revolution in philosophy." In the wake of Zhdanov's thunder, 46 of Aleksandrov's colleagues and coworkers, among them doubtless...
...critic said that Aleksandrov's "weakness for abstract and vague formulations brings him to the point where correct Marxist theses are drowning in them, and the revolutionary content of Marxism is sometimes replaced by abstract discussions...
...year history of the Soviet Union, philosophical quarrels have sometimes had fatal results. Long before he was tried for alleged treason and executed, Nikolai Bukharin had been attacked for philosophical deviation. But Bukharin never recanted. Aleksandrov did, and last week Pravda reported: "Aleksandrov fully agreed with the criticism, acknowledged that his book had serious failures and mistakes, and agreed that the whole organization of a new scientific work in the branch of philosophy should be fundamentally changed...