GRGR(24): Tchitcherine, Wimpe, Marxism, and you

[Paul Mackin]

On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, one million billionth of a millisecond on a sunday morning wrote:

> 
> Paul Mackin writes:
> >Well, except for a slight problem, I would have said Vasclav was merely
> >alluding to dialectical materialist thinking under which any
> >intentionality  behind an historically significant act (that which might
> >occupy 'the time between' and could be pure or impure) is
> >irrelevant.  Only the significant action itself (say, the blowing up of
> >the bridge that saved the battalion) has meaning. 
> 
> What makes acts historically significant?


That they pushed along the dialectic. Toward the inevitable Synthesis. In
the direction of the classless society or intermediate points along the
way. Of course as Wimpe sez, if it's inevitable, why not live.

Dorothy Parker once said something like that also but in a different
context.

		P.