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Another aspect of Healy's document must be dealt with. It del iberately sets out to befuddle and stampede WRP members who have not had the opportunity to study philosophy, and especially Hegel's struggle lor a dialectical worldview. It was the main text which Lenin read during his work on philosophy in 1914; Lenin's rough notes on published in his Philosophical Notebooks"

, Collected Works, Vol 38.

Healy has a long record of utilising snippets from Volume 38 out of context as virtual biblical references in order to give himself a bogus prestige as "theoretician" whose word is law on philosophy. It is important to remember however that the book is not written in any Hegel Form shind an en rolled old In many passages Lenin is merely paraphrasing the idealist philosophers Hegel and Kant, and not expounding Marxism at all.

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Healy, however rooting round anciously for material with which to hit Thornett, rummages through Volume 38, and in the last pages of his document (pp. 7-8) confusingly strings together a series of philoso they come from or what their content is: (Slaughter's article in Workers Press of February 27th, supPollected Were of Marx-Engels Vol. I, does the same thing, but in an even more compressed form.) In two pages after having never written any thing on them before Healy skates must be made.

Firstly, it is evident that Healy has never read Lenin's notes they must be read - in parallel with the Science of Logic itself. (As Lenin put it, he was trying to read Hegel materialistically" (vol.38, p. 104)) This is why Healy gets Hegel's 'categories" in the wrong order (see the 'Table of Contents' to same contemplating ophieks y necessary.

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Secondly, for this reason Healy completely misses the essential point that Hegel's 'categories' all arise from the conflict (or contradiction) of previous 'categories! Healy simply unites them in a single process. and dishes up the w' ne caboodle as Marxism. What Marxism takes from Hegel's philosophy is not its system of categorics, but the dialectical method by which they arise from one another.

Most important of all, however, Healy's document on Thornett is an insult to the intelligence of any comrade seriously struggling to train himself in dialectical materialism The struggle for Marxism within the party, and for leadership within the class, has nothing to do with Healy's superficial understanding of Hegelianism used subjectively to justify arbitrary expulsions. This of course is, as this article shows, the subjective idealist method.

The Workers Socialist League will take up the study of these philosophica questions, but in a way which springs from the concrete struggle and development of the party programme and leadership to develop a Marxist leadership for. the working class. the only leadership which can lead the working class to power.

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