No.464097
What are the political implications of practice being the criterion of determining truth?
>Marxists hold that man's social practice alone is the criterion of the truth of his knowledge of the external world. What actually happens is that man's knowledge is verified only when he achieves the anticipated results in the process of social practice (material production, class struggle or scientific experiment). If a man wants to succeed in his work, that is, to achieve the anticipated results, he must bring his ideas into correspondence with the laws of the objective external world; if they do not correspond, he will fail in his practice. After he fails, he draws his lessons, corrects his ideas to make them correspond to the laws of the external world, and can thus turn failure into success; this is what is meant by "failure is the mother of success" and "a fall into the pit, a gain in your wit". The dialectical-materialist theory of knowledge places practice in the primary position, holding that human knowledge can in no way be separated from practice and repudiating all the erroneous theories which deny the importance of practice or separate knowledge from practice. Thus Lenin said, "Practice is higher than (theoretical) knowledge, for it has not only the dignity of universality, but also of immediate actuality."
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No.464098
what kinda brainlet question is that?
it means that if your theory is not applicable to practice - it's useless, and you are useless
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No.464099
also see how I condensed everything into one concise sentence when philosophyfags needs to write tldrs to express the same point..
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No.464107
>>464097What a load of drivel. The theory has been consistently right, while observations based on the present reality have proven to have been wrong time and time again.
>>464099Thank you based retard.
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No.464132
>>464124Jeez. Too bad China didn't have someone smart, capable, and morally righteous like you to lead them.
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No.464134
>>464132too bad chinese proles are not capable of leading themselves
maybe this will change someday.. or maybe not and they will remain slaves forever and ever