For those who are interested. The latest issue of
Science & Society (October 2008) has an article Thomas Weston, "Non-antagonistic Contradictions in Soviet Philosophy." In that article, Weston argues that Soviet thinkers developed this notion to support the thesis that while Soviet society might have its contradictions and antagonisms, these could be resolved within the framwork of the Soviet system without requiring any major upheavals or overhauls of the system. Weston traces this concept back into the 1920s when Soviet philosophy was dominated by the debate between mechanists and Deborinists. Both schools, in Weston's view, elaborated their own conceptions of "non-antagonistic contradictions." And this concept was kept on in Soviet philosophy, even after the "new turn" in which both Mechanism and Deborinism were officially supplanted by Stalin's version of dialectical materialism. At any rate, Weston believes that the concept of "non-antagonistic contradictions" was poorly grounded and primarily served an apologetic function.
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Originally Posted by JimFar
Well, as a matter of fact, the emergence of dialectical materialism as the official philosophy of the Soviet Union followed a path not unlike the one that was followed by Christianity in regards to the emperor Constantine. In the 1920s, Soviet Marxists were, on philosophical matters, split into two camps: the so-called mechanists who argued that a specific Marxist philosophy was unnecessary and the so-called "dialecticians" or Deborinists (after the philosopher Abram Deborin),by who maintained that Marxism did require a philosophy as its basis and that the required philosophy was one based on Hegelian dialectics. See http://www.mail-archive.com/marxism-.../msg00529.html
for further details.
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