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Reflecting on the relationship between founders of philosophical systems and their followers, Benjamin I. Schwartz has observed:
The founder himself. . . is not necessarily concerned with the mutual consistency of all his utterances, and on many problems his thought may be fruitfully ambiguous. Therein may lie one of the secrets of his greatness. Nor is he generally concerned with aspects of reality which do not impinge on his vision. It is generally the followers who assume the burden of defending the vision against hostile challenge and who must attempt to relate the vision to those aspects of the Experience which the founder has left out of account. If the vision is accepted by a whole society and becomes an ‘official’ philosophy, the problem of relating it to new realities becomes particularly acute. . . . In the course of defending and applying the vision, many of the problems implicit in it become explicit and many of its inner polarities come to the surface.
Select three of the following thinkers (or pairs of thinkers) we have studied this quarter, and analyze how Professor Schwartz’s observation is reflected in their thought on the tension between historical determinism and voluntarism in their thought. If you chose I, II, IV, or V, you must treat both thinkers and should be able to identify any divergences between the two thinkers’ ideas. Be sure to treat the problem of ideology and revolutionary consciousness.
I. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
II. V. I. Lenin and Georges Sorel
III. Eduard Bernstein
IV. Mao Zedong and Régis Debray
V. Franz Fanon and Amilcar Cabral
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POLITICAL SCIENCE 114BR
MARXIST POLITICAL THOUGHT
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
DR. GERMAINE A. HOSTON
Spring 2022
FINAL PAPER PROMPT
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Turn to page 2 for the prompt to which you must respond in your paper.
POLI 114BR Marxist Political Thought
Spring 2022
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Prompt
Reflecting on the relationship between founders of philosophical systems and their followers,
Benjamin I. Schwartz has observed:
The founder himself. . . is not necessarily concerned with the mutual consistency
of all his utterances, and on many problems his thought may be fruitfully
ambiguous. Therein may lie one of the secrets of his greatness. Nor is he
generally concerned with aspects of reality which do not impinge on his vision. It
is generally the followers who assume the burden of defending the vision against
hostile challenge and who must attempt to relate the vision to those aspects of
the Experience which the founder has left out of account. If the vision is accepted
by a whole society and becomes an ‘official’ philosophy, the problem of relating
it to new realities becomes particularly acute. . . . In the course of defending and
applying the vision, many of the problems implicit in it become explicit and
many of its inner polarities come to the surface.
Select three of the following thinkers (or pairs of thinkers) we have studied this quarter, and
analyze how Professor Schwartz’s observation is reflected in their thought on the tension
between historical determinism and voluntarism in their thought. If you chose I, II, IV, or V,
you must treat both thinkers and should be able to identify any divergences between the two
thinkers’ ideas. Be sure to treat the problem of ideology and revolutionary consciousness.
I.
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
II.
V. I. Lenin and Georges Sorel
III.
Eduard Bernstein
IV.
Mao Zedong and Régis Debray
V.
Franz Fanon and Amilcar Cabral
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