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tooblue · 12-21-2007, 10:32 PM

Are Marxism and Relativism incongruent with one another?

Relativism: the belief that concepts such as right and wrong, goodness and badness, or truth and falsehood are not absolute but change from culture to culture and situation to situation.

Marxism: the doctrine that the state throughout history has been a device for the exploitation of the masses by a dominant class, that class struggle has been the main agency of historical change, and that the capitalist system, containing from the first the seeds of its own decay, will inevitably, after the period of the dictatorship of the proletariat, be superseded by a socialist order and a classless society.

Bonus question: does shopping at Walmart make anyone else depressed?

12-21-2007, 10:32 PM	#1
tooblue Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 4,016	Marxism and Relativism ... Are Marxism and Relativism incongruent with one another? Relativism: the belief that concepts such as right and wrong, goodness and badness, or truth and falsehood are not absolute but change from culture to culture and situation to situation. Marxism: the doctrine that the state throughout history has been a device for the exploitation of the masses by a dominant class, that class struggle has been the main agency of historical change, and that the capitalist system, containing from the first the seeds of its own decay, will inevitably, after the period of the dictatorship of the proletariat, be superseded by a socialist order and a classless society. Bonus question: does shopping at Walmart make anyone else depressed?