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On the other side, there is a strengthening of dogmatic positions, though this is not the 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 Marxist is being reaffirmed. Faced with atything 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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