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Goodbye Plato and Jefferson, Hello Lenin!
Both Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin would be pleased if they could see how their doctrines have been realized in the United States.
- Walter Clemens
- CounterPunch
As I learned at Moscow State University in the 1950s, dialectical materialism (“diamat”) holds that the economic base—who owns what—determines the political, social, and cultural superstructure.
The superstructure spawns a false ideology—an illusion that the present arrangement between haves and have-nots is inevitable and as good as it gets.
The superstructure creates an educational system and mass media that foster this illusion.
Institutions of government…