Re: like a Jeopardy question

nate (schmolze who-is-at students.wisc.edu)
Sat, 6 Mar 1999 18:40:57 -0600

"If you want to know a certain thing or a certain class of
things directly, you must personally participate in the
practical struggle to change reality, to change that thing or
class of things, for only thus can you come into contact with
them as phenomena; only through personal participation in the
practical struggle to change reality can you uncover the essence
of that thing or class of things and comprehend them."
ON PRACTICE
by Mao Zedong
July 1937

http://werple.net.au/~andy/practice.htm
-----Original Message-----
From: Eugene Matusov <ematusov who-is-at UDel.Edu>
To: xmca who-is-at weber.ucsd.edu <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
Date: Saturday, March 06, 1999 4:45 PM
Subject: Re: like a Jeopardy question

>Hi Mary--
>
>I remember reading Lenin on why Marxism is so powerful.
Besides propaganda
>statements like "Marx's theory is powerful because it is true,"
he made a
>point that before Marx, philosophers tried only to explain the
reality while
>Marx demonstrated that in order to understand the reality
people have to
>change it (or something like that). Let me know if you need
the reference
>and I'll ask Russian immigrants for title of Lenin's work (it
seems to me
>that the title was something like (in my translation from
Russian), "The
>three sources, the three aspects of Marxism")
>
>My own suspicion is that the point that "If you want to really
understand
>something, you have to try to change it" probably goes back to
Marx or Hegel
>or even further in the history of the philosophy. But maybe
Lenin invented
>it.
>
>Eugene
>PS What is the Jeopardy price? :-) I couldn't believe that I
can cash on my
>waste of time of sitting on very-very boring lectures on
"Scientific
>Communism" in the former Soviet Union!
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mary Bryson <brys who-is-at unixg.ubc.ca>
>To: xmca who-is-at weber.ucsd.edu <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
>Date: Saturday, March 06, 1999 1:25 PM
>Subject: like a Jeopardy question
>
>
>>He said/wrote something like:
>>"If you want to really understand something, you have to try
to change it."
>>Who is: ""?
>>
>>Does anyone know? I keep thinking Kurt Lewin maybe, but I
dunno and I need
>to
>>figure this out.
>>
>>thanks,
>>
>>Mary
>>
>>Mary Bryson, Associate Professor and UBC Scholar 98/99,
>>Faculty of Education, UBC
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