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| The History of Philosophy |
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| By Alan Woods | |
| Friday, 11 January 2008 | |
| In the first of a series of talks, Alan Woods adresses the Greenwich branch of the Socialist Appeal on the need for Philosophy, especially for those who are interested in the perspective of revolution. This talk begins with the materialist pre-Socratics of Greece, where real philosophy began, and the father of dialectics - Heraclitus. The relevance to politics of having a philosophy is to explain the apparent static reality of things, which is in fact a surface appearance that conceals maturing contradictions. Part 1.1 and Part 1.2. |
Classic Quotes
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"It is necessary to help the masses in the process of the daily struggle to find the bridge between present demands and the socialist program of the revolution. This bridge should include a system of transitional demands, stemming from today's conditions and from today's consciousness of wide layers of the working class and unalterably leading to one final conclusion: the conquest of power by the proletariat" - L. Trotsky, The Transitional Program |
