It is so natural in trying to understand the phenomena of human life to have recourse to notions of historicism that the very fact of wanting to ques… - Alexander Zinoviev
" "It is so natural in trying to understand the phenomena of human life to have recourse to notions of historicism that the very fact of wanting to question them seems sacrilegious. Some people think that we can only understand communist society in its essence from a historical point of view, that is to say by considering the history of its formation. Authentic history, that goes without saying, and not the falsified history practiced by pro-communist historians and philosophers. According to them, the course of events, the way in which this society was constituted is sufficient to explain nature. p. 39
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About Alexander Zinoviev
Aleksandr Zinovyev (29 September 1922 – 10 May 2006) was a Russian philosopher, sociologist and writer
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Александр Александрович Зиновьев
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Alexander Alexandrovich Zinoviev
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