Stalin was a scientific socialist, wasn’t he? I mean, one point where every Marxist can agree with Stalin was that Engels was right about the Scientific Socialism vs. Utopian Socialism binary, right? I didn’t even know binaries were materialist until I read Trotsky’s collected works.
Now that I think about it a bit more, do you reckon it would it be a problem for Marxism in general and Leninism in particular if binaries are teleological? Is teleology anti-materialist?
I’m no ingroup boffin, but I would wager it could be. What do you all reckon? Would teleology give rise to methodological errors of the order of a Stalin? Is trying to put your binary-laden ideology on a par with empirical studies of the natural sciences a bit of an, I don’t know, anti-materialist thought experiment?
I am a bit of a utopian Other though, what else would you expect but endless questions.
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