[The ‘transitional programme’ document seems to me—as it pretty much did when first presented—more or less arrant nonsense, and a key example of the inability of Marxism, even in the hands of its most brilliant intellectual representative, to handle contemporary history. ]
In the last 50 years I have failed to find any bourgeois historian or intellectual who knows how " to handle contemporary history ".
What I do find is a sort of nihilistic KNOW NOTHINGISM - " history is bunk "- attitude. The scientific method in general must shun human history ?
But how can any aspect of knowable REALITY be abandoned to prejudice and superstition and ruling class insolence ?
No more than Newton in physics is Marx dated in the science of history. Newtonian laws can still get us to Mars, recently to Pluto. Marxism can guide us out of this hell in the inner solar system .
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