ABSTRACT
In the older countries the outlook of the capitalist sectors is largely what can be expected from a Marxist schema. The world proletariat to the extent that it is directed by the Communist Party, is oriented toward tactical wisdom, or where it is free from it, is too exhausted or divided by the diversion of world wars to exercise its radically critical function. In the accusations brought by the Anglo-Americans against the U.S.S.R. and the Communists one finds hardly any new facts since 1945. To speak of humanism without being on the side of “humanist socialism” in the Anglo-American way, to “understand” the Communists without being a Communist, is to set oneself very high—in any case, way above the crowd. Contemporary philosophers have not renounced rationality of the self with itself and with the other person, but only the pretense of a reason content to be right for itself and removed from the judgment of the other person.
