Dialectical materialism and the truth emancipation in moral philosophy of Oleg Drobnicki

This article presents the main points of Oleg Drobnicki's moral philosophy, including the view how the philosophy of dialectical materialism can be supplemented by Kantian views. The question of the relationship of elimination of private property, while the "true emancipation" - that is, maintains one's moral duty and morality in complex. Article determines what was particularly specific for Soviet ethics and how it was born amid heavy pressure of the Leninist-Stalinist mechanical determinism. What als ob (sort of) was missed in the Soviet form of Marxism in its quest for the liberation of man, and why was the categorical imperative again to enter the arena of philosophical discourse in soviet philosophy? Why, in the end, Marx sought by his philosophical doctrines? His life's work can be summed up in the expression: "Human Emancipation". Philosophical, political and economic development of Marx's thought is moving under the sign of the difference between the actual (but not sufficient) bourgeois liberation and true human liberation, which has yet to be realized. The next move of the official Soviet philosophy or dialectical materialism was "planting" the morality, or rather its introduction to the masses, especially to those masses who "misunderstood", or they suffered from some aberration (deviation) of the "correct" behaviour, which was destined als ob historically. The individual did not understand his "benefits" and "good" when it is not acting on the basis of the principles of social and economic relations of the proletariat class. In our view it would be desirable to raise the question: is it possible to replace the philosophical ethics by historical materialism? "Dialectical materialism did not take into account a more accurate interpretation of Marxism that the emancipation of man can not be fully realized only with the abolition of class distinctions, but only through the complex as a complete destruction of private property, as well as moral and spiritual liberation, in which there is a place for spiritual renewal. Even those based on the experience of the Soviet Union, we can say that the abolition of private property does not guarantee freedom to a person and human alienation from the products of its production. Unfortunately, Communist Parties dictate of "proper moral instruction" has led to enslavement of man, and there existed kind of moral code of rules. The same thing could be said about "Liberal" and "Democratic" Western society, which always has double standards and in fact proclaimed democracy, that can only be camouflaged doctrine of consumer society. Our philosopher tried to solve the problem and proper things in the perspective of Marxist philosophy, he tried to construct the bridge between what "is" and what "ought to be", that was usual in soviet philosophy. According to Hume's tradition: from the descriptive expressions can not necessarily lead to prescriptive provisions - in morals, our soviet philosopher solves the problem by usage of the concept of morality, emanating from some of the genesis of the history of philosophy. In summarizing Drobnicki's thoughts, we can say that an understanding of the relationship of history and creation of prerequisites for the development in accordance with them is the highest duty.

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