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Sartre'sCritique de la Raison Dialectique and the opacity of Marxism-Leninism

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  1. Critique de la Raison Dialectique (précédé deQuestion de méthode), Tome I:Théorie des ensembles pratiques, Gallimard, Paris, 1960, 755 p.

  2. Cf., for example, Reuben Osborn'sMarxism and Psycho-analysis, Barrie & Rockliff, London, 1965, 160 pp.

  3. Filosofskaja enciklopedija. T.4. M., ‘Sov. enciklopedija’, 1967, p. 557. The article ‘Sartre’ was written by Roger Garaudy.

  4. ‘Kategorija social'nogo bytija i metod ego analiza v ekzistencializme Sartra’, inSovremennyj ekzistencializm [Contemporary Existentialism], ‘Mysl'’, M., 1966, str. 149–204.

  5. ‘Negativnaja dialektika Sartra’, inibid. str. 246–279.

  6. ‘Problema čeloveka v koncepcijax francuzskix ekzistencialistov’, inibid. str. 280–318. There is an equally indecisive mention of Sartre'sCritique in G.D. Sul'ženko's ‘Teorija poznanija francuzskogo ekzistencializma’ [The Theory of Knowledge of French Existentialism] in the same volume, where it is question of the ‘subjectivism’ of Sartre's view on knowledge.

  7. G. Ja. Strel'cova has just published ‘Evoljucija filosofskich vzgljadov Ž.-P. Sartra’ [The Evolution of the Philosophic Views of J.-P. Sartre] inVF 1968,3, 74–84, a short, objective and realistic appraisal of theCritique. Although the interpretation of theCritique basically agrees with that of our first section (the author talks of Sartre's “historical optimism” (p. 82) and sees Sartre as on his way “from existentialism to Marxism” (p. 84)), Strel'cova fails to see theCritique as a challenge to Marxism-Leninism and, above all, seems to be ‘waiting at the summit’ for Sartre to reach the objective truth which the Soviets already possess.

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In view of the fact that we are talking about existentialism here, ‘viscosity’ might have been a better term. However, ‘opacity’ seems to fit better the visual-linear nature of Marxism-Leninism.

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Blakeley, T.J. Sartre'sCritique de la Raison Dialectique and the opacity of Marxism-Leninism. Studies in Soviet Thought 8, 122–135 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01043809

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