The origin of self-contradiction

April 23rd, 2010 2 Comments »

原来self contradiction是自Karl Marx之时就存在的传统啊。口口声声要消灭阶级对立的一个人居然不知道应该如何定义阶级?

资本论,Das Kapital, Chapter 52. Classes

“... The first question to he answered is this: What constitutes a class? — and the reply to this follows naturally from the reply to another question, namely: What makes wage-labourers, capitalists and landlords constitute the three great social classes? ...”

然后是Engels的注释。

[Here the manuscript breaks off.]

假设--*假设*--Marx同学只是没有想清楚应该怎么定义他的的阶级理论吧 (虽然其他文献suggest Marx停止写作之时距他逝世还有10年以上的时间)。那么他的信徒们为什么也没能完成这位革命导师未竟的任务呢?一个fundamentally flawed的theory是怎么被当成self-evident的truth被传播的?