SCIENCE AND REVOLUTION 



compromising and frank discussion is the only 

 method used in return by socialists the world 

 over in their endeavor to ascertain the truth and 

 keep their movement in line with natural evolu- 

 tion. We welcome such discussion and neither 

 expect nor give any quarter. 



The materialist part of the socialist philosophy 

 meets with strong disapproval from two camps 

 within its ranks. Neither of them is numerically 

 very strong at present, but they may become so 

 when larger bodies of the intellectual middle class 

 will ally themselves with the revolutionary prole- 

 tariat. One of these camps favors speculative 

 metaphysics, the other Christian socialism. Both 

 of them object to the consistent application of the 

 materialist conception of history and the universe 

 on the part of the strict Marxian school. 



They urge against materialist monism that 

 their ethics are superior to or identical with those 

 of socialism, and out of this alleged superiority 

 or identity they construct an argument in favor 

 of speculative idealism or theological religion. 



That ethics do not rest on idealism or religion 

 has been proven by thousands of years of human 

 history. We do not base our ethics on our phi- 

 losophy, nor our philosophy on our ethics, but 

 regard both ethics and philosophy as results of 



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