Re: The 'formalising' of dialectics.

[sorry about the previous mispost]

And the only way to really do that is through as much through
resocialization as it is through some academic reorientation.  Think
about it.

"To demand that every party member occupy himself with the philosophy
of dialectics naturally would be lifeless pedantry. But a worker who
has gone through the school of the class struggle gains from his own
experience an inclination toward dialectical thinking. Even if
unaware
of this term, he readily accepts the method itself and its
conclusions. With a petty bourgeois it is worse. There are of course
petty-bourgeois elements organically linked with the workers, who go
over to the proletarian point of view without an internal revolution.
But these constitute an insignificant minority. The matter is quite
different with the academically trained petty bourgeoisie. Their
theoretical prejudices have already been given finished form at the
school bench. Inasmuch as they succeeded in gaining a great deal of
knowledge both useful and useless without the aid of the dialectic,
they believe that they can continue excellently through life without
it. In reality they dispense with the dialectic only to the extent
they fail to check, to polish, and to sharpen theoretically their
tools of thought, and to the extent that they fail to break
practically from the narrow circle of their daily relation****ps. When
thrown against great events they are easily lost and relapse again
into petty-bourgeois ways of thinking."