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Haz explains that Deng Xiaoping's contribution to Marxism-Leninism is the understanding that the pace of socialist construction happens at a level that escapes the purview of socialist consciousness, that socialist consciousness is actually derivative and secondary with regard to the material scale of time at which socialist construction occurs. | Haz explains that Deng Xiaoping's contribution to Marxism-Leninism is the understanding that the pace of socialist construction happens at a level that escapes the purview of socialist consciousness, that socialist consciousness is actually derivative and secondary with regard to the material scale of time at which socialist construction occurs. | ||
The quote references Soviet philosopher, [[Evald Ilyenkov]], who Haz regards as expressing the ultimate conclusion of official Soviet Marxist-Leninist ideology in its purest form. In his famous work ''Cosmology of Spirit'', he writes that at a certain point in the development of communist society, mankind will voluntarily induce a cosmic catastrophe, so as to reverse the process of 'thermal dying' or the heat death of the universe. | The quote references Soviet philosopher, [[Evald Ilyenkov]], who Haz regards as expressing the ultimate conclusion of official Soviet Marxist-Leninist ideology in its purest form. In his famous work, ''Cosmology of Spirit'', he writes that at a certain point in the development of communist society, mankind will voluntarily induce a cosmic catastrophe, so as to reverse the process of 'thermal dying' or the heat death of the universe. | ||
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. | ||