Joseph Dietzgen and Dialectical Thought

Cutting and pasting like the best of them.

Another talk from the 1982 'Socialist Thinkers – People Who History Made' lecture series and, again, the speaker is Steve Coleman:

First Part

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LENGTH:57:47

Second Part

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FILE SIZE: ~48.46 megabytes

LENGTH: 52:36

Further Reading on Dietzgen:

Jospeh Dietzgen page on the Marxist Internet Archive website

'Joseph Dietzgen - The Workers Philosopher' by Adam Buick, which originally appeared in the journal, Radical Philosophy (1975).

Centenary Of Joseph Dieztgen by Frank Roberts, which originally appeared in the OBU Bulletin (1928).

'Cosmic Dialectics, The Libertarian Philosophy of Joseph Dietzgen' by Larry Gambone

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"Scientific socialism considers our views dependent upon our material needs, and our political standpoint dependent upon the economic position of the class we belong to. Moreover, this conception corresponds with the aspirations of the masses whose needs are in the first place material, while the ruling class must necessarily base itself on the deductive principle, on the preconceived unscientific notion that the spiritual salvation and the mental training of the masses are to precede the solution of the social question."Joseph Dietzgen, Scientific Socialism, 1873

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More Dietzgen

Further to the recent post on the blog of Steve Coleman speaking on the subject of 'Joseph Dieztgen and Dialectical Thought' - and the accompanying assorted Dietzgen links - fellows WSPer, Morgan M., has posted me a link to another article on Dietzgen that appeared in the August 1918 issue of the Western Clarion*:

'Proletarian Logic' by Rab**

*The Western Clarion was the paper of the Socialist Party of Canada, and dates from 1904 onwards. After 1918, it's history gets a bit sketchy as the Canadian Government banned its publication of its outspoken opposition to the war: "But there remained always a small and hardy group who carried on the theoretical work of the Party; and its official organ "The Western Clarion," forever in dutch with the authorities, continued to reach its readers. Banned, it became "The Emancipator"; banned again, it became "The Red Flag"; there was never a time when those interested could not receive the journal "Published in the Interest of the Working Class Alone."" [From here.]

** 'Rab' was the pen name of Isaac Rabinowich, a founder member of the WSPUS. See pic accompanying this post.

Joseph Dietzgen and Dialectical Thought 17/10/82

Another talk from the 1982 'Socialist Thinkers – People Who History Made' lecture series and, again, the speaker is Steve Coleman:

First Part

DOWNLOAD LINK: Dietzgen and Dialectical Thought

FILE NAME: 01 Steve Coleman Dietzgen Part One.mp3

FILE SIZE: ~53.24 megabytes

LENGTH:57:47

Second Part

DOWNLOAD LINK: Dietzgen and Dialectical Thought

FILE NAME: 01 Dietzgen Part Two.mp3

FILE SIZE: ~48.46 megabytes

LENGTH: 52:36

Further Reading on Dietzgen:

Jospeh Dietzgen page on the Marxist Internet Archive website

'Joseph Dietzgen - The Workers Philosopher' by Adam Buick, which originally appeared in the journal, Radical Philosophy (1975).

Centenary Of Joseph Dieztgen by Frank Roberts, which originally appeared in the OBU Bulletin (1928).

'Cosmic Dialectics, The Libertarian Philosophy of Joseph Dietzgen' by Larry Gambone