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In this field, on one side we have, frequent attempts to reconcile marxist thought with aspects of bourgeois thought, like dominant tendency. This involves mechanical reaffirmations of fundamental principles of Marxism, Marxism-Leninism, and Trotskyism, rejecting every attempt to consider the new reality, current events or changes. A certain vulgarisation of Marxism is being reaffirmed. Faced with anything new which questions established theories, it replies with abstractions: Some sectors of the left are looking for simple, dogmatic, classical and monolithical truths which don't cause problems.
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