Parallels, Perpendiculars and Imaginary Quantities. Reading the Book by V.I. Tolstykh We Were. The Soviet Man as He Is

Authors

  • Andrey A. Voronin Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Science, 12/1, Goncharnaya str., Moscow, 109240, Russian Federation.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21146/0042-8744-2022-3-175-181

Keywords:

Theory, reality, ideology, communism, socialism, social studies, humanism, liberalism

Abstract

In the article, using the example of the book by V.I. Tolstykh, some characteristic features of “comfortable Marxism” are considered. Firstly, it is an unspoken non-theoretical convention of separating theory from reality, and two phenomena are at its core – the “right to misunderstanding” and the “right to ignorance”. Sec­ondly, the substitution of reality as the subject of theory with ideological, utopian phantoms. Thirdly, the construction of the theory of society as a logically im­maculate system of statements that soars above reality and avoids contact with real problems – both social and theoretical-cognitive.

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Published

2022-03-31 — Updated on 2025-02-06

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Issue

No. 3 (2022)

Section

History of Russian Philosophy

How to Cite

[1]
2025. Parallels, Perpendiculars and Imaginary Quantities. Reading the Book by V.I. Tolstykh We Were. The Soviet Man as He Is. Voprosy Filosofii. 3 (Feb. 2025), 175–181. DOI:https://doi.org/10.21146/0042-8744-2022-3-175-181.