An excellent article but it may endanger the concept of 'the five pillars of Marxism' since Marxism is also changing along with the rest of reality-- the new waters in the ever changing river may wash away some of them as others rise. Christianity only adopted ideas from Greek philosophy that could be reformulated to defend dogmas based on faith. What was alive and creative in Greek philosophy was lost until the Renaissance. Cf The History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell. Dogmatism is a great danger and hopefully we won't fall into it ourselves. Criticism and self-criticism is essential as you point out.
An excellent article but it may endanger the concept of 'the five pillars of Marxism' since Marxism is also changing along with the rest of reality-- the new waters in the ever changing river may wash away some of them as others rise. Christianity only adopted ideas from Greek philosophy that could be reformulated to defend dogmas based on faith. What was alive and creative in Greek philosophy was lost until the Renaissance. Cf The History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell. Dogmatism is a great danger and hopefully we won't fall into it ourselves. Criticism and self-criticism is essential as you point out.