The Poverty of Philosophy

The question of philosophy is not an academic or intellectual question. When Marx said in his celebrated Thesis on Feuerbach, “The philosophers hitherto have interpreted the world in different ways, the question, however, is to change it,” he intended to convey the real mission of philosophy. The real philosophy can only be the philosophy of praxis, i.e., the philosophy of subversive action. This subversive action can be realized only when philosophy is demystified and becomes a weapon in the hands of the masses. To change the world one needs to understand it and to understand the world one needs to…