Is Truth a Naive Concept?

 In Marxism, an Historical and Critical Study by George Lichtheim, page xvii, the author writes "The naive view that doctrines are either true or false, no other judgement being allowed, takes no account of the practical significance of theory:  its relevance to the circumstances it sets out to explain."

Then on page xviii, Mr. Lichtheim writes, "The usual question with regard to the author of a systematic body of thought is: (1) What did he teach? (2) Is what he taught true?  It is questionable whether this approach can ever be very helpful, and it is quite certainly useless in dealing with Marx, the more so as his theories emerged in response to developments which he was the first to identify."

I would summarize these thoughts from Socialist writer George Lichtheim in this way:  Truth is a naive concept, and is quite certainly useless in dealing with Marxism.  I.e., Marxists do not worry about being truthful because they do not believe in truth.

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