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“To recognize, within limits, the validity of historical materialism is not tantamount to acknowledging the truth of Marxism.”

Marxism Historical Materialism

Book:Main Currents Of Marxism: The Founders, The Golden Age, The Breakdown

Source: Main Currents Of Marxism: The Founders, The Golden Age, The Breakdown

“From the point of view of the history of Marxism, Maoist ideology is noteworthy not because Mao 'developed' anything but because it illustrates the unlimited flexibility of any doctrine once it becomes historically influential.”

Doctrine Marxism Maoism

Book:Main Currents Of Marxism: The Founders, The Golden Age, The Breakdown

Source: Main Currents Of Marxism: The Founders, The Golden Age, The Breakdown

“Maoism in its final shape is a radical peasant Utopia in which Marxist phraseology is much in evidence but whose dominant values seem completely alien to Marxism.”

Book:Main Currents Of Marxism: The Founders, The Golden Age, The Breakdown

Source: Main Currents Of Marxism: The Founders, The Golden Age, The Breakdown

“There are no rational means of predicting 'the future of humanity' over a long period or foretelling the nature of 'social formations' in ages to come. The idea that we can make such forecasts 'scientifically', and that without doing so we cannot even understand the past, is inherent in the Marxist theory of 'social formations'; it is one reason why that theory is a fantasy, and also why it is politically effective.”

Fantasy Marxism Predicting The Future

Book:Main Currents Of Marxism: The Founders, The Golden Age, The Breakdown

Source: Main Currents Of Marxism: The Founders, The Golden Age, The Breakdown

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