Francois Zellinger wrote:
> On 2006-07-24 Aatu Koskensilta wrote:
>
> > As we all know, it was comrade Stalin's brilliant and objective
article
> > _Marxism and linguistics_ in 1951 (IIRC) that established conclusively
> > that language is not a part of the superstructure, and hence formal
> > logic is a legitimate non-ideological discipline.
>
> Perhaps Stalin made his propaganda and direction job ...
>
> > I'm wondering whether
> > there is any good account of the history of formal logic in USSR,
> > especially in its "ideological aspects" - something like _Science and
> > philosophy in the Soviet Union_ by Loren Graham, but focusing on
logic,
> > explicitly excluded by Graham?
>
> ... and let the scientists do their research.
>
> So he was in the fine situation of having control on both. Stalin is
> known to be a hard and brutal man, but not as a stupid one.
As a first-generation Communist, Stalin had received some training in
formal logic. Yet he had no quarrel with, and co-operated happily in,
the suppression of formal logic in the U.S.S.R. after the revolution.
According to Bazhanov, Stalin only discovered the problem with that
approach in 1940, when he found that his general staff (most of whose
first-generation Communists had been liquidated during the previous
decade) had no "experience in well-formed reasoning."
http://staff.ulsu.ru/bazhanov/english/asml_bazh1.pdf
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