Word: dogma
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Kolakowski then attacks the sacred Marxist dogma of historical determinism. History is not predictable, he insists. This destroys the basis of the Soviet demand for blind obedience on the ground that whatever the party bosses decide to do is part of society's inevitable movement toward the overthrow of capitalism...
Germany's present intellectual climate is compounded of three elements, Hollerer continued? "an optimistic realism" which seeks the rapid achievement of practical goals, 'the old German humanism" founded on classical traditions, and a "scepticism of doctrine and dogma" created by recent events of German history...
...befits a man whose minions are estimated to have killed between 10 million and 15 million people since 1949, Mao began his revision of Marxist dogma by admitting that murder is a vital tool in the construction of a Communist society. "The total number of those liquidated by our own security forces," he said in a burst of frankness, "is 800,000." But now, he insisted, "we are no longer using methods of terror." Where the Russians went wrong, he implied, was in not recognizing that even after a Communist government has crushed all organized opposition, it may face "internal...
Shaking & Healing. Tillich's analysis of the layers of meaning in the chief dogma of Christianity, that of the Resurrection, lays bare the trend of his unorthodox thought. Where the physics-minded 19th century sought to "explain" the Resurrection and the miracles by means of physical phenomena, Tillich looks again to a psychological interpreation. The Resurrection is for Tillich ) both reality and myth-a myth that has always been present in what Jung calls nan's collective unconscious. The resurrection of gods and half-gods is a familiar mythological symbol, says Tillich, and he Jews of Jesus...
Faithful to the dogma of his masters, Stalin refused to recognize that prostitution flourished in the Soviet Union (he, says a recent Communist commentator, "professed the famous principle that if the facts do not conform to the thesis, it is the facts and not the thesis that are to blame-and woe to those who point out the facts"). When caught, Soviet prostitutes are sometimes sent to prison camps, but no laws or regulations exist under which the embarrassing problem can be rationally dealt with. Said Trud last February: "Are these women not breaking a basic law of Socialism...