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22 I SPECIAL FEATURE Passion Islam I November 2009
A Comparative
Part One
Study of
Ideologies
Part One
Here is a presentation of Marxism from realism must be substituted for method to its apparent madness. The
the words of Marxists themselves: Hegelian Idealism . objective conditions for the production
All existence is a process of Although dialectical materialism of the material means of life form the
dialectical materialism. It is the is believed to be a comprehensive basis of all the historical activity of
Hegelian dialectic of Thesis, synthesis hypothesis which is considered man. History was never understood by
and antithesis materialised. Conflict suitable for a universal explanation any philosopher or historian because
of the thesis and antithesis (in other of all phenomena in all categories, none of them chanced to possess
words struggle or conflict) is an the chief interest of Marxism is its this master-key. All idealistic and
inevitable fact in the universe. Their application in the field of social providential explanations of history
mutual action and reaction creates institutions and processes. are misleading. Ideas and religions
a synthesis. All creation therefore In social realms, economic are nothing but the material world
is an outcome of inner and inherent phenomenon, comprised under reflected by the human mind. There
contradictions which inevitably develop the general concept of modes of is no other Creator or Director of the
in every situation. This is a complete production , are really creative and world forces except the dialectics of
explanation of all causal processes. It potent factors. Religion, politics, ethics matter. Politics and judicial systems
is not the mind that dominates matter, and art are all derivatives of the mode are not products of abstract ideas of
but it is itself a product of matter. The of production . justice but are rooted in the material
effective causes are the objective History is not a series of chaotic conditions of life. The anatomy of
events in the universe. Materialistic haphazard events, but rather there is a civil society is a by-product of its
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