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The most pressing issue facing Western Communists is to confront the failure of Marxism-Leninism to be successfully synthesized in the Western context. To that end, Infrared draws from a diverse array of thinkers in order to help clarify the true nature of the 'translation error.' | The most pressing issue facing Western Communists is to confront the failure of Marxism-Leninism to be successfully synthesized in the Western context. To that end, Infrared draws from a diverse array of thinkers in order to help clarify the true nature of the 'translation error.' | ||
Toward that end, Heidegger, who formulates a general historical crisis of Western philosophy, is regarded as a seminal bridge between Western and non-Western thinking. The significance of these thinkers lies not in their particular political commitments but in studying the various ways they attempted to grasp the unique challenges facing Western thinking as a whole. | Toward that end, Heidegger, who formulates a general historical crisis of Western philosophy, is regarded as a seminal bridge between Western and non-Western thinking. The significance of these thinkers lies not in their particular political commitments but in studying the various ways they attempted, as well as failed, to grasp the unique challenges facing Western thinking as a whole. | ||
According to Infrared, the theoretical contributions of Marxist-Leninist statesmen and thinkers, regarded by Western academics and vogue 'Marxians' as simplistic and vulgar, represent a historical brilliance, genius, and wisdom that only the most advanced conceptual apparatuses available to the Western mind can properly comprehend. | According to Infrared, the theoretical contributions of Marxist-Leninist statesmen and thinkers, regarded by Western academics and vogue 'Marxians' as simplistic and vulgar, represent a historical brilliance, genius, and wisdom that only the most advanced conceptual apparatuses available to the Western mind can properly comprehend. | ||