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Hey everyone,
I am new to these forums and want to make it clear up-front that I am coming from a revolutionary Marxist-Leninist-Maoist perspective. The philosophy that I uphold is very much in line with the point that Karl Marx made that "the various philosophers have interpreted the world in various ways, the point, however, is to change it." In recent years, Bob Avakian, the Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, has done a lot of writing about epistemology in particular, and looking at the history of the international communist movement, has made an epistemological rupture with opportunist ways that people in the communist movements worldwide have tried to manipulate the truth or deny it for reasons of expediency.
I personally hope to get into some heavy philosophical discussion on this forum, to further both my own and other people's understanding of truth and knowledge, and ultimately the universe itself.
I think that Bob Avakian's trailblazing works should be looked into, and I'd love to hear what people's opinions are on this particular article published last year in the Revolutionary Worker newspaper:
http://rwor.org/a/1262/avakian-epistemology.htm [Broken]
(Editors’ Note: The following is based on a discussion by Bob Avakian with some comrades on the subject of epistemology. Epistemology refers to a theory of knowledge, to an understanding of how people acquire knowledge, what is the nature of truth and how people come to know the truth. In what follows an effort has been made to retain the original character of what was said and how it was recorded: these were not prepared remarks by Chairman Avakian (or the other comrades) but are comments that were made in the course of a discussion, and what follows here is based on notes that were taken of that discussion. These were not verbatim (exact word-for-word) notes, but were typed up at the time and then gone over for sense and minor corrections by a participant of the meeting. Not every contribution by every comrade has been included; but there are parts which respond to or expand upon a point made by Chairman Avakian that are helpful and so we have included them. This has been further edited for publication here, and footnotes as well as notes in brackets within the text have been added.)
I am new to these forums and want to make it clear up-front that I am coming from a revolutionary Marxist-Leninist-Maoist perspective. The philosophy that I uphold is very much in line with the point that Karl Marx made that "the various philosophers have interpreted the world in various ways, the point, however, is to change it." In recent years, Bob Avakian, the Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, has done a lot of writing about epistemology in particular, and looking at the history of the international communist movement, has made an epistemological rupture with opportunist ways that people in the communist movements worldwide have tried to manipulate the truth or deny it for reasons of expediency.
I personally hope to get into some heavy philosophical discussion on this forum, to further both my own and other people's understanding of truth and knowledge, and ultimately the universe itself.
I think that Bob Avakian's trailblazing works should be looked into, and I'd love to hear what people's opinions are on this particular article published last year in the Revolutionary Worker newspaper:
http://rwor.org/a/1262/avakian-epistemology.htm [Broken]
(Editors’ Note: The following is based on a discussion by Bob Avakian with some comrades on the subject of epistemology. Epistemology refers to a theory of knowledge, to an understanding of how people acquire knowledge, what is the nature of truth and how people come to know the truth. In what follows an effort has been made to retain the original character of what was said and how it was recorded: these were not prepared remarks by Chairman Avakian (or the other comrades) but are comments that were made in the course of a discussion, and what follows here is based on notes that were taken of that discussion. These were not verbatim (exact word-for-word) notes, but were typed up at the time and then gone over for sense and minor corrections by a participant of the meeting. Not every contribution by every comrade has been included; but there are parts which respond to or expand upon a point made by Chairman Avakian that are helpful and so we have included them. This has been further edited for publication here, and footnotes as well as notes in brackets within the text have been added.)
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