Abstract
In this paper we will try to propose the hypothesis that the crisis of
Marxism and the difficulties of real socialism (particularly the Soviet case) were
linked at some point with the philosophical dimension and elements about the
philosophy of history in the work of Marx and Engels. From the philosophies of
history present in his writings, different traditions have been consolidated within
Marxism, of which we shall be interested in studying in particular the "diffusionist”
tradition, which will provide the theoretical-philosophical support of Stalinism
through DIAMAT. The aim of the work will therefore be to identify in the work of
Marx and Engels those elements that gave rise to the diffusionist current and to the
interpretation of DIAMAT as the official philosophy of the history of the international
communist movement. Then we will rescue the most humanist tradition of Marx's
thought to reflect the potentiality of critical thinking today.
Marxism and the difficulties of real socialism (particularly the Soviet case) were
linked at some point with the philosophical dimension and elements about the
philosophy of history in the work of Marx and Engels. From the philosophies of
history present in his writings, different traditions have been consolidated within
Marxism, of which we shall be interested in studying in particular the "diffusionist”
tradition, which will provide the theoretical-philosophical support of Stalinism
through DIAMAT. The aim of the work will therefore be to identify in the work of
Marx and Engels those elements that gave rise to the diffusionist current and to the
interpretation of DIAMAT as the official philosophy of the history of the international
communist movement. Then we will rescue the most humanist tradition of Marx's
thought to reflect the potentiality of critical thinking today.