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Marxism disguises itself as science and owing to this it is easier for Marxism to portray the existing society as acting on the basis of scientific laws of his history, to portray the leadership's selfishness and idiocy as ingenious scientific foresight etc.
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Unlike science, an ideology is constructed of conventional ambiguous expressions, which require interpretation. It is impossible to verify or experimentally confirm an ideological statement, one cannot refute these for they are meaningless. […] While arising, an ideology may have pretensions to be scientific. But having become an ideology, it loses all the major characteristics of science.
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Khrushchev's perestroika ended without any bloodshed. Khrushchev's companions abandoned their leader in time and turned Brezhnevists.
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Gorbachevism, carried out by mediocre but ambitious party bureaucrats, is an attempt not only to outdo the people but also the objective laws of human society.
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Aleksandr Zinovyev
Born:
October 29, 1922
Died:
May 10, 2006
(aged 83)
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Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Zinovyev was a Russian logician and writer of social critique.
Known for:
Yawning Heights (1976)
Homo Sovieticus (1985)
Philosophical Problems of Many-valued Logic (1963)
The Radiant Future (1978)
The Reality of Communism (1984)
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