"What then is time? If no one asks me, I know: if I wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not." Thus famously spoke St. Augustine. But what are the implications of this statement that apparently equates the knowing and unknowing?
When discussing the roots of Communism and of what is called non- or semi-communist Left – which nevertheless keeps some latent causal relation to dialectical materialism – one crucial question usually gets passed over in silence. Namely, is there a single unique ruling principle to this systematical attempt to absorb the world in thought and, if yes, what exactly is it?
