4 Aleksandr Zinovyev Quotes on Philosophy

Aleksandr Zinovyev quotes on philosophy

3. Marxism emerged not only with the intention of explaining scientifically everything in the world, but in addition to this, as a representative of the 'hurt and injured' classes of the world, extpressing thus the centuries old dream of an earthly paradise. But dreams and wishes have nothing to do with science.

4. All in all, Engels talked so much rot of every kind, that now all the world's academies of science should be directed to rectify his mistakes and idiocies.

6. None of the Marxist concepts (literally - not a single one!) matches the logical rules of scientific concepts.

11. Unlike science, an ideology is constructed of conventional ambigous 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.