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| ==Part 1: The Philosophical Problem==
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| ===1. Introduction===
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| {{Message box|text=Summary: The worker needs to practice dialectical materialism in order to connect theory to practice to carry out a just revolution. This method of analysis and reasoning can solve all problems and is the basis of Marxist philosophy. It wholly stems from and evolves with science.|image=Article.svg}}
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| '''Dialectical Materialism'''
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| * Connects theory to practice
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| '''What is the method of analysis and reasoning that the worker activist needs?'''
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| * a method that never separates theory from practice, that takes into account facts and circumstances that are never the same.
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| '''What should we avoid'''
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| * Ready made solutions (dogma)
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| '''Why should we study philosophy'''
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| * We the worker activist need a method of analysis and reasoning that is just in order to carry out a just revolution
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| '''What is Philosophy'''
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| * Study of the most general problems
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| '''How does science differ'''
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| * The study of more specific problems
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| '''Philosophies connection to science'''
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| * Extension of sciences; It’s based and depends on science
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| '''Materialism'''
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| * Is nothing other then the scientific explanation of the universe
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| '''What is the common confusion to which the word materialism gives rise?'''
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| * Thought to be one who only thinks of enjoying material pleasures. This is wrong. It does not prevent us from having an ideal and fighting to make it triumph
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| '''What is the relationship between materialism and Marxism?'''
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| * Marxism based on materialism; consequently stems from science, rests on them and evolves with them
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| '''What was the impact of Marx and Engels on materialism?'''
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| * updated ancient materialism and brought it into the age of modern science
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| '''What marxists take into account when looking at class struggle?'''
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| * Economic, political and ideological struggle.
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| '''Who will give the movement the best direction?'''
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| * The one who is able to fight on all these terrains
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| '''How important is the study of philosophy for the militant worker?'''
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| * In order to carry out a just revolution it is necessary
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| '''What more particular importance does the study of dialectical materialism have for them?'''
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| * It will allow them to solve all the problems and to unveil all the campaigns of falsification of marxism, which pretend to complete and renew it.
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| ''- my note: Like the new left/dem socialists. All Marx but no bite''
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| '''Bourgeoisie campaign of silence'''
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| * Separating Marxism from materialism. Marxism taught only as political doctrine and historical materialism spoken of without mentioning philosophy of materialism
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| === 2. The Fundamental Problem of Philosophy ===
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| '''Two ways of explaining the world?'''
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| * 1)the scientific conception 2) the non scientific conception
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| '''What two distinctions did philosophers make when explaining the world?'''
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| * Matter and spirit:'' objects that are material and those that are not material like ideas, mind and thought''
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| '''All the ways these distinctions are named'''
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| * being and thinking/mind and matter/brain and consciousness/social experience and social consciousness/power and will
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| '''What is the fundamental question of philosophy'''
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| * Which one precedes the other? Which is the most important?
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| '''There can only be two answers to this question...'''
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| * 1)a scientific answer 2) a non-scientific answer
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| '''What do we struggle with believing?'''
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| * That there has always been something and we tend toward there having been nothing.
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| '''What have we found is easier to believe?'''
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| * What religion teaches, “The spirit hovered above the darkness... then came the matter” Spirit preceding matter
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| '''During early humans what were dreams and imagination attributed to?'''
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| * a double existence leading early philosophers to attribute these thoughts and feelings double to the soul that left the body after death
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| '''God’s and spirits'''
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| * Attributed to external phenomenon they couldn’t understand or control like storms, germination and floods
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| '''What question split philosophers into two great camps?'''
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| * Did God create the world or has the world been in existence eternally?
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| '''Idealism answer'''
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| * non-scientific explanation - God created the world - spirit created matter
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| '''Materialism answer'''
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| * scientific explaination - nature, matter was the main element
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| '''Support for materialism'''
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| * there are bodies without thought, like stones, metals, earth, we never observe, on the other hand, the existence of mind without body.
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| '''Can only be two answers to question How is it that man thinks?'''
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| * idealist 1)humans’ think because we have a soul / materialist 2)humans’ think because we have a brain
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