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CLOSER TO LIFE

Marxism is a strictly scientific conception of the laws and processes of social life.It is a unity of abstract thought and concrete knowledge.Its a dream and a passion at one and the same time."We should dream ! i wrote these words and became alarmed".Lenin wrote in "What Is To Be Done ? He pictured a stern Social-Democrat asking him :"Has a Marxist any right at all to dream ,knowing that according to Marx mankind always sets itself the tasks it can solve and that tactics is the process of growth of Party problems which grow together with the party?" Lenin answered this difficult question with a quotation from Pisarev about naturalness and the necessity of a certain gap between reality and the antecedent dream ,for otherwise one cannot imagine what motive would spur man to consummate his great works in art ,science or practical life."The rift between dreams and reality," Pisarev wrote "cause no harm if only the person dreaming believes seriously in his dream,if he attentively observes life,compares his observations with his castles in the air, and if, generally speaking ,he works conscientiously for the achievement of his fancies.If there is some connection between dreams and life,then all is well" and Lenin concludes : "Of this kind of dreaming there is unfortunately too little in our movement".

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