It is, in principle, impossible to understand our life and … - Alexander Zinoviev

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It is, in principle, impossible to understand our life and our mental functioning if we are not a dialectician. However, dialectics is fundamentally foreign to Western man, whether he is a “thinker” or not. p. 353

Alexander Zinoviev

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Aleksandr Zinovyev (29 September 1922 – 10 May 2006) was a Russian philosopher, sociologist and writer

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Native Name: Александр Александрович Зиновьев

Alternative Names: Alexander Alexandrovich Zinoviev

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