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Bertrand Russell talked about Marx in 1952 interviewed
Interviewer:
Lord Russell, speaking as of today, can you see the influence of any one Philosophers more than any other one?
Bertrand Russell:
Well, I suppose in recent years the most important influence has been Marx. If you can dignify him with the name of philosopher, I should hardly like to dignify him so myself, but I suppose he must count in the list. And he certainly has had more influence than anybody else.
Interviewer:
For those of us who reject Marx, can you offer any positive philosophy to help us toward a more hopeful future?
Bertrand Russell:
Well, less to that. You see, I think one of the troubles of the world has been the habit of dogmatically believing in something or other. And I think all these matters are full of doubt. And the rational man will not be too sure that he's right. I think that we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe in any philosophy. Not even mine. Not even mine.
No, I think we should accept our philosophies with a measure of doubt. What I do think is this that if a philosophy is to bring happiness, it should be inspired by kindly feeling. Now Marx is not inspired by kindly feeling. Marx pretended that he wanted the happiness of the proletariat. What he really wanted was the unhappiness of bourgeoise. And it was because of that negative element, because of that hate element that his philosophy produced disaster. A philosophy which is to do good must be one inspired by kindly feeling and not by unkindly feeling.
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