Organization and philosophy

The first of a series of four discussions on:
Dialectics of organization and philosophy in today's freedom struggles, Karl Marx and Marxist-Humanism

In recent years, attempts have been made to establish organizations that are revolutionary and yet break from the pitfalls of the "the party to lead." Too often, working out the philosophical basis of organization has taken a back seat to declaring what one is against, most notably vanguardism. We will revisit the implications for organization in the philosophic beginnings of Marxist-Humanism in Hegel's Absolutes, involving a new relationship of theory and practice. It was a time of a new stage of production (automation), a new stage of cognition, and a new kind of organization.

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