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	Dogmatic or "left-sided thinking" is eager to enact change but upholds unrealistic conceptions of change and development. Left-sided thinkers don’t have the patience for quantity accumulation which are prerequisite to quality shifts, or expect to skip entire stages of development which are necessary to precipitate change in the real world. An example of left-sided thinking would be believing that a capitalist society can instantly transition into a stateless, classless, communist society, skipping over the transitions in quantity and quality which are required to bring such a massive transformation in human society to fruition.<ref name="MET" />		Dogmatic or "left-sided thinking" is eager to enact change but upholds unrealistic conceptions of change and development. Left-sided thinkers don’t have the patience for quantity accumulation which are prerequisite to quality shifts, or expect to skip entire stages of development which are necessary to precipitate change in the real world. An example of left-sided thinking would be believing that a capitalist society can instantly transition into a stateless, classless, communist society, skipping over the transitions in quantity and quality which are required to bring such a massive transformation in human society to fruition.<ref name="MET" />

			== Ultra-leftism ==
			It is because of this that dogmatism often serves as the theoretical basis for [[ultra-leftism]], as it depends on separating theory from [[praxis]], only changing based on internal logic and/or 'purity' rather than its role in practice. It sees all theoretical problems as already 'solved' and the praxis reduced to the mere application of the principles of Marxism.<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Clay Newlin\|newspaper=The Organizer\|title=Dogmatism: the root of opportunism in our movement\|date=1977-7\|url=https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-4/pwoc-dog-7.htm#:~:text=Once%20the%20fundamental%20principles%20of,tasks%20in%20the%20present%20period.\|quote=In our opinion, the root error is dogmatism, because it is dogmatism which provides the theoretical basis for the ultra-left line. Generally speaking, it is dogmatism which has caused many basically honest communists to deviate from Marxism-Leninism.

			Dogmatism separates theory from practice. It sees theory as existing apart from the living reality of the class struggle, as if theory had a life of its own independent from the social practice of the masses. It sees theory as a schema, a set of immutable propositions, whose veracity is determined only by their internal logic rather than by the sole criterion of practice.

			Thus for the dogmatist the study of concrete conditions is negated in favor of quotation and pedantry. All one has to be able to do is “to pick out passages from a book like a scholar whose head is a card index box filled with quotations from books, which he picks out as he needs them; but if the situation arises which is not described in any book, he becomes confused and grabs the wrong quotation from the box.” (Lenin, Wks, Vol. 29, p. 364.)}}</ref> Thus turning it into a purity fetish of following their respective ideas of what 'true' [[socialism]] is, with no consideration of material conditions necessitating differing forms, making them deviate from Marxism and often leads to their skepticism or outright rejection of [[Actually Existing Socialism\|AES]].

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	In [[Marxism\|Marxist]] discourse, '''dogmatism''' is a methodological deviation characterized by the attempt to copy or repeat actions or tactics without considering the [[Historical materialism\|historical material conditions]] of the situation.<ref>{{Citation\|author=[[Mao Zedong]]\|year=1957\|title=On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People\|chapter=China's Path to Industrialization\|quote=Now there are two different attitudes towards learning from others. One is the dogmatic attitude of transplanting everything, whether or not it is suited to our conditions. This is no good. The other attitude is to use our heads and learn those things which suit our conditions, that is, to absorb whatever experience is useful to us. That is the attitude we should adopt.\|mia=https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-5/mswv5_58.htm}}</ref> According to Vietnam’s Curriculum of the Philosophy of Marxism-Leninism For University and College Students Specializing in Marxism-Leninism and Ho Chi Minh Thought, the opposite of Dogmatism is Revisionism, and dogmatism is a form of "left-sided thinking" while revisionism is a form of "right-sided thinking". Dogmatism overemphasizes commonalities and rushes to prematurely draw correlations that may not apply, because they overlook individual characteristics or specific material conditions. <ref name="MET">{{Citation\|author=Minister of Education and Training, in collaboration with Sự Thật, authors, with Associate Professor and Doctor of Philosophy Nguyen Viet Thong as chief editor\|year=2008\|title=Curriculum of the Basic Principles of Marxism-Leninism Part 1\|title-url=https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:Curriculum_of_the_Basic_Principles_of_Marxism-Leninism_Part_1\|chapter=III. BASIC PAIRS OF CATEGORIES OF MATERIALIST DIALECTICS\|chapter-url=https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:Curriculum_of_the_Basic_Principles_of_Marxism-Leninism_Part_1#III._BASIC_PAIRS_OF_CATEGORIES_OF_MATERIALIST_DIALECTICS\|section=1. Private and Common\|page=136-137\|quote=Annotation 134:		In [[Marxism\|Marxist]] discourse, '''dogmatism''' is a methodological deviation characterized by the attempt to copy or repeat actions or tactics without considering the [[Historical materialism\|historical material conditions]] of the situation.<ref>{{Citation\|author=[[Mao Zedong]]\|year=1957\|title=On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People\|chapter=China's Path to Industrialization\|quote=Now there are two different attitudes towards learning from others. One is the dogmatic attitude of transplanting everything, whether or not it is suited to our conditions. This is no good. The other attitude is to use our heads and learn those things which suit our conditions, that is, to absorb whatever experience is useful to us. That is the attitude we should adopt.\|mia=https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-5/mswv5_58.htm}}</ref> According to Vietnam’s Curriculum of the Philosophy of Marxism-Leninism For University and College Students Specializing in Marxism-Leninism and Ho Chi Minh Thought, the opposite of Dogmatism is Revisionism, and dogmatism is a form of "left-sided thinking" while [[revisionism]] is a form of "right-sided thinking". Dogmatism overemphasizes commonalities and rushes to prematurely draw correlations that may not apply, because they overlook individual characteristics or specific material conditions. <ref name="MET">{{Citation\|author=Minister of Education and Training, in collaboration with Sự Thật, authors, with Associate Professor and Doctor of Philosophy Nguyen Viet Thong as chief editor\|year=2008\|title=Curriculum of the Basic Principles of Marxism-Leninism Part 1\|title-url=https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:Curriculum_of_the_Basic_Principles_of_Marxism-Leninism_Part_1\|chapter=III. BASIC PAIRS OF CATEGORIES OF MATERIALIST DIALECTICS\|chapter-url=https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:Curriculum_of_the_Basic_Principles_of_Marxism-Leninism_Part_1#III._BASIC_PAIRS_OF_CATEGORIES_OF_MATERIALIST_DIALECTICS\|section=1. Private and Common\|page=136-137\|quote=Annotation 134:

	Dogmatism and Revisionism in Relation to the Private and Common Dogmatism is the inflexible adherence to ideals as incontrovertibly true while refusing to take any contradictory evidence into consideration. Dogmatism stands in direct opposition to materialist dialectics, which seeks to form opinions and conclusions only after careful consideration of all observable evidence.		Dogmatism and Revisionism in Relation to the Private and Common Dogmatism is the inflexible adherence to ideals as incontrovertibly true while refusing to take any contradictory evidence into consideration. Dogmatism stands in direct opposition to materialist dialectics, which seeks to form opinions and conclusions only after careful consideration of all observable evidence.

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-In [[Marxism|Marxist]] discourse, '''dogmatism''' is a methodological deviation characterized by the attempt to copy or repeat actions or tactics without considering the [[Historical materialism|historical material conditions]] of the situation.<ref>{{Citation|author=[[Mao Zedong]]|year=1957|title=On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People|chapter=China's Path to Industrialization|quote=Now there are two different attitudes towards learning from others. One is the dogmatic attitude of transplanting everything, whether or not it is suited to our conditions. This is no good. The other attitude is to use our heads and learn those things which suit our conditions, that is, to absorb whatever experience is useful to us. That is the attitude we should adopt.|mia=https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-5/mswv5_58.htm}}</ref>
+In [[Marxism|Marxist]] discourse, '''dogmatism''' is a methodological deviation characterized by the attempt to copy or repeat actions or tactics without considering the [[Historical materialism|historical material conditions]] of the situation.<ref>{{Citation|author=[[Mao Zedong]]|year=1957|title=On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People|chapter=China's Path to Industrialization|quote=Now there are two different attitudes towards learning from others. One is the dogmatic attitude of transplanting everything, whether or not it is suited to our conditions. This is no good. The other attitude is to use our heads and learn those things which suit our conditions, that is, to absorb whatever experience is useful to us. That is the attitude we should adopt.|mia=https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-5/mswv5_58.htm}}</ref> According to Vietnam’s Curriculum of the Philosophy of Marxism-Leninism For University and College Students Specializing in Marxism-Leninism and Ho Chi Minh Thought, the opposite of Dogmatism is Revisionism, and dogmatism is a form of "left-sided thinking" while revisionism is a form of "right-sided thinking". Dogmatism overemphasizes commonalities and rushes to prematurely draw correlations that may not apply, because they overlook individual characteristics or specific material conditions. <ref name="MET">{{Citation|author=Minister of Education and Training, in collaboration with Sự Thật, authors, with Associate Professor and Doctor of Philosophy Nguyen Viet Thong as chief editor|year=2008|title=Curriculum of the Basic Principles of Marxism-Leninism Part 1|title-url=https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:Curriculum_of_the_Basic_Principles_of_Marxism-Leninism_Part_1|chapter=III. BASIC PAIRS OF CATEGORIES OF MATERIALIST DIALECTICS|chapter-url=https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:Curriculum_of_the_Basic_Principles_of_Marxism-Leninism_Part_1#III._BASIC_PAIRS_OF_CATEGORIES_OF_MATERIALIST_DIALECTICS|section=1. Private and Common|page=136-137|quote=Annotation 134:
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	In [[Marxism\|Marxist]] discourse, '''dogmatism''' is a methodological deviation characterized by the attempt to copy or repeat actions or tactics without considering the [[Historical materialism\|historical material conditions]] of the situation.<ref>{{Citation\|author=[[Mao Zedong]]\|year=1957\|title=On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People\|chapter=China's Path to Industrialization\|quote=Now there are two different attitudes towards learning from others. One is the dogmatic attitude of transplanting everything, whether or not it is suited to our conditions. This is no good. The other attitude is to use our heads and learn those things which suit our conditions, that is, to absorb whatever experience is useful to us. That is the attitude we should adopt.\|mia=https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-5/mswv5_58.htm}}</ref>		In [[Marxism\|Marxist]] discourse, '''dogmatism''' is a methodological deviation characterized by the attempt to copy or repeat actions or tactics without considering the [[Historical materialism\|historical material conditions]] of the situation.<ref>{{Citation\|author=[[Mao Zedong]]\|year=1957\|title=On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People\|chapter=China's Path to Industrialization\|quote=Now there are two different attitudes towards learning from others. One is the dogmatic attitude of transplanting everything, whether or not it is suited to our conditions. This is no good. The other attitude is to use our heads and learn those things which suit our conditions, that is, to absorb whatever experience is useful to us. That is the attitude we should adopt.\|mia=https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-5/mswv5_58.htm}}</ref>

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	'''~~Dogmatism~~''' is an attempt to copy or repeat actions without ~~adapting them to~~ the [[~~Materialism~~\|material conditions]].<ref>{{Citation\|author=[[Mao Zedong]]\|year=1957\|title=On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People\|chapter=China's Path to Industrialization\|quote=Now there are two different attitudes towards learning from others. One is the dogmatic attitude of transplanting everything, whether or not it is suited to our conditions. This is no good. The other attitude is to use our heads and learn those things which suit our conditions, that is, to absorb whatever experience is useful to us. That is the attitude we should adopt.\|mia=https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-5/mswv5_58.htm}}</ref>		In [[Marxism\|Marxist]] discourse, '''dogmatism''' is a methodological deviation characterized by the attempt to copy or repeat actions or tactics without considering the [[Historical materialism\|historical material conditions]] of the situation.<ref>{{Citation\|author=[[Mao Zedong]]\|year=1957\|title=On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People\|chapter=China's Path to Industrialization\|quote=Now there are two different attitudes towards learning from others. One is the dogmatic attitude of transplanting everything, whether or not it is suited to our conditions. This is no good. The other attitude is to use our heads and learn those things which suit our conditions, that is, to absorb whatever experience is useful to us. That is the attitude we should adopt.\|mia=https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-5/mswv5_58.htm}}</ref>

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	'''Dogmatism''' is an attempt to copy or repeat actions without adapting them to the [[Materialism\|material conditions]].<ref>{{Citation\|author=[[Mao Zedong]]\|year=1957\|title=On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People\|chapter=China's Path to Industrialization\|quote=Now there are two different attitudes towards learning from others. One is the dogmatic attitude of transplanting everything, whether or not it is suited to our conditions. This is no good. The other attitude is to use our heads and learn those things which suit our conditions, that is, to absorb whatever experience is useful to us. That is the attitude we should adopt.\|mia=https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-5/mswv5_58.htm}}</ref>		'''Dogmatism''' is an attempt to copy or repeat actions without adapting them to the [[Materialism\|material conditions]].<ref>{{Citation\|author=[[Mao Zedong]]\|year=1957\|title=On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People\|chapter=China's Path to Industrialization\|quote=Now there are two different attitudes towards learning from others. One is the dogmatic attitude of transplanting everything, whether or not it is suited to our conditions. This is no good. The other attitude is to use our heads and learn those things which suit our conditions, that is, to absorb whatever experience is useful to us. That is the attitude we should adopt.\|mia=https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-5/mswv5_58.htm}}</ref>

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'''Dogmatism''' is an attempt to copy or repeat actions without adapting them to the [[Materialism|material conditions]].<ref>{{Citation|author=[[Mao Zedong]]|year=1957|title=On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People|chapter=China's Path to Industrialization|quote=Now there are two different attitudes towards learning from others. One is the dogmatic attitude of transplanting everything, whether or not it is suited to our conditions. This is no good. The other attitude is to use our heads and learn those things which suit our conditions, that is, to absorb whatever experience is useful to us. That is the attitude we should adopt.|mia=https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-5/mswv5_58.htm}}</ref>

== See also ==

* [[Adventurism]]
* [[Opportunism]]
* [[Revisionism]]

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