Word: hegelianism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fancies himself the champion of Marxist purity, combatting the "revisionist" heresies of Moscow and Belgrade. Yet his expositions of dialectics are sometimes primitive, to say the least. In a speech in Hangchow in 1965, Mao tried to explain the complex Hegelian-Marxist concept of "thesis-antithesis-synthesis" by explaining that the Communists' victory over Chiang Kai-shek's armies in the civil war was due to the superiority of the Marxist digestive system: "Synthesis in the long run amounts to swallowing the enemy completely. How did we synthesize the Kuomintang? Didn't we take enemy personnel...
...traits as self-advancement, money-mania, and social indifference. Their complaints, taken at the aesthetic and philosophical levels, reach us through a different tradition than the complaints of historians, but they are more powerful for that fact, and, indeed, for their stark prescience, seem to need none of their Hegelian or Sade-ian predecessors to be powerful...
...Lichtheim, to paraphrase Brecht, would have to sweat to get the common people into his book and he doesn't take the trouble. So history becomes the battle of great thinkers, each a bit self-conscious in this un-Hegelian day and age, looking over his shoulder now and again to see if the rude folk are in fact trailing along behind...
...This fellow not only told all but did all. He had a lifelong devotion to the female pudenda. He was a mountaineer of the mons Veneris. Why? Well, because it was there. No rational or speculative explanation can serve otherwise to explain his enormous obsession. His book illustrates the Hegelian principle that quantity becomes quality. Art emerges from arithmetic: it could have been written by a computer fed to repletion by a sex-crazed programmer...
...Hegelian Collision. "Why not join one set of people who devoutly observe a system of morality," says Kamensky, "and why not at the same time join another set of people who live as devoutly by another system of morality?" Out of the collision, he adds, "will come the synthesis, both the organizations will destroy each other, and a third will emerge which will be superior...