Word: dialecticism
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To understand how these three men have dominated our thinking, says Author Barzun, try to imagine our speech without terms like survival of the fittest, struggle for existence, natural selection, exploitation of labor, dialectic materialism, scientific socialism, social significance, Nordic culture, music drama, leitmotiv, the twilight of the gods.
Ex-Comrade Canning also told the committee that he and his comrades tried subtly to class-angle their teaching. Once the unit rebuked a comrade for spouting to his pupils such Communist terms as ''dialectic materialism," advised him to use more finesse. One of the party's...
"Practical" men always scorn the philosopher as ineffectual, blathering away while the caissons and tumbrels roll. But philosophers deviously have their days. Absent-minded Philosopher Georg W. F. Hegel innocently begot a dialectic, which begot Marx's socialism, which begot V. I. Lenin, who begot a revolution that made...
With that leverage on good and evil, talking with a rational clarity most mystics have lacked, Mr. Propter makes moral mincemeat of everything in sight, "good" or "bad," within the purely human sphere of endeavor. Some of his enemies-war and fascism-are popular pushovers. Others will leave Propter few...
Up to now, astronomers in bourgeois democracies have not suspected that there might be a political cast to the curvature of space and the size of the universe. Last week, however, the U. S. journal Science reprinted parts of a fiery resolution recently adopted by the Kremlin's official...