ABSTRACT
The conscious substitution of scientific skepticism for the Hegelian philosophy of Marx would have deprived Lenin’s followers of a religious certainty of success which may have made good soldiers of some of them. Whatever might be lost in getting rid of the relics of animism would be more than compensated by the advantages of a consciously practical and scientific attitude. Dialectic Materialism declares that the world is essentially material, and that mind evolved out of matter in connection with the complex organization of the central nervous system in animals and men. An abandonment of the dialectic religion would make possible a sensible policy toward other religions. The Marxian policy is to root out all warm and personal religions, and at the same time destroy wonder and a sense of the world’s mystery, by putting a cold and impersonal religion in their place. A practical social science would also abandon the irresponsible Marxian generalizations about morals.
