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For Haz, the true meaning of this bold outlook lies in the Soviet view of the objectivity of socialism, beyond the threshold of the Soviet ideological apparatus, as an apocalypse, a final unity of the ideal with material reality, which actually entails the negation of material reality. Thus Soviet ideology implicitly regards communism as an ever-distant ideal, to be realized at some later date in the future. It cannot actually be achieved, for this means the negation of all reality. | For Haz, the true meaning of this bold outlook lies in the Soviet view of the objectivity of socialism, beyond the threshold of the Soviet ideological apparatus, as an apocalypse, a final unity of the ideal with material reality, which actually entails the negation of material reality. Thus Soviet ideology implicitly regards communism as an ever-distant ideal, to be realized at some later date in the future. It cannot actually be achieved, for this means the negation of all reality. | ||
Deng Xiaoping's contribution to Marxism-Leninism, by contrast, allows for the recognition of socialism as an objective historical phenomena, irreducible to any individual consciousness or ideal. Socialist construction is recognized to occur at a scale far beyond the threshold of individual consciousness, itself integrating the entire movement of the world economy, global market, and even Western capitalist system toward the rational conclusion of an entirely new mode of production. Socialism, when understood as the riddle of history solved and the true driving force of history, does not need to be imposed upon reality, only recognized. The economic policies of a Proletarian Dictatorship, guided by the scientific socialist outlook, reflect a wise appraisal of a historical phenomena that is ultimately beyond its own direct control. | Deng Xiaoping's contribution to Marxism-Leninism, by contrast, allows for the recognition of socialism as an objective historical phenomena, irreducible to any individual consciousness or ideal. Socialist construction is recognized to occur at a scale far beyond the threshold of individual consciousness, itself integrating the entire movement of the world economy, global market, and even Western capitalist system toward the rational conclusion of an entirely new mode of production. Socialism, when understood as the riddle of history solved and the true driving force of history, does not need to be imposed upon reality, only recognized. The economic policies of a Proletarian Dictatorship, guided by the scientific socialist outlook, reflect a wise appraisal of a historical phenomena that is ultimately beyond its own direct control. | ||
Rather than engaging in the voluntarist and Utopian re-modeling of all society from scratch, the main significance of a proletarian dictatorship lies in ensuring the sovereign nature of economic development. This is in contrast to the chaos of the cultural revolution, where 'socialism' as an ideal was sought after in all of the most minute details of culture, society and the economy. | |||
Whereas the Soviet Marxism-Leninism and the Western Cartesian outlook underlying it regarded material reality beyond consciousness to be apocalyptic, Deng Xiaoping in a sense renders it possible to regard socialism as a post-apocalyptic phenomena, going beyond the threshold of the idealist, rationalist, and gnoseological assumptions of bourgeois civilization. | Whereas the Soviet Marxism-Leninism and the Western Cartesian outlook underlying it regarded material reality beyond consciousness to be apocalyptic, Deng Xiaoping in a sense renders it possible to regard socialism as a post-apocalyptic phenomena, going beyond the threshold of the idealist, rationalist, and gnoseological assumptions of bourgeois civilization. |