RT Article
T1 Mysticism and Communism
JF Journal for the scientific study of religion
VO 6
IS 1
SP 110
OP 112
A1 Stiernotte, Alfred P.
LA English
YR 1967
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1667776274
AB While mysticism and communism are not at all related at the practical level of Marxist political discussion and action, they show similarities at the level of their evaluation as cosmic philosophies. Dialectical materialism includes: (1) a rejection of mechanical materialism; (2) the affirmation that mental and spiritual qualities are irreducible to physics and chemistry; (3) the sense of the mystery of the world; (4) the Hegelian dialectic implying the unity and interconnection of all things as they are permeated by the One; (5) the fact that even Marx and Engels mentioned mystics among their precursors; (6) the appreciation of the evolutionary mysticism of Teilhard de Chardin by Marxists.
K1 Communism
K1 Dialectical materialism
K1 Hegelianism
K1 Intuition
K1 Marxism
K1 Materialism
K1 Mysticism
K1 Mystics
K1 Thomism
K1 Thought
DO 10.2307/1384203