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Criticism, Pekunlu only repeated Lenin's counsel to "not think over this issue,
or you will lose track of materialism and be carried away by religion." In an
article for the aforementioned periodical, Pekunlu quoted the following lines
from Lenin:

Once you deny the objective reality [that is] given us in sensation, you have
already lost every weapon against fideism [reliance on faith alone], for you
have slipped into agnosticism or subjectivism - and that is all that fideism
requires. A single claw ensnared, and the bird is lost. And our Machists [an
adherent of Machism, a modern positivist philosophy], have all become
ensnared in idealism, that is, in a diluted, subtle fideism; They became
ensnared from the moment they took "sensation" not as an image of the
external world, but as a special "element." It is nobody's sensation, nobody's
mind, nobody's spirit, nobody's will. 26
These words explicitly demonstrate the fact that Lenin found alarming
and wanted to expunge, both from his own mind and the minds of his
"comrades." It disturbs contemporary materialists too, in a similar way. But
Pekunlu and other materialists suffer a yet greater distress because they
know that this certain fact is now being advanced in a way that's far more
explicit convincing than a hundred years ago. For the first time, this sub-
ject is being explained in a truly irrefutable way.
Still, nevertheless, a great number of materialist scientists take a super-
ficial stand against the fact that no one can reach matter in and of itself.
The subject covered in this chapter is one of the most important and most
exciting that a person can ever run across. It's fairly unlikely that these sci-
entists would have faced such a crucial subject before, but the reactions
and the stance they employ in their speeches and articles still hint at how
shallow and superficial their comprehension really is.
Some materialists' reactions show that their blind adherence to material-
ism has somehow impaired their logic, making them far removed from com-
prehending the subject. For instance, Alaeddin Senel - like Rennan Pekunlu,
an academician and a writer for Bilim ve Utopya - said, "Forget the collapse
of Darwinism, the real threatening subject is this one," and made demands
implying " prove what you tell," sensing that his own philosophy has no
basis. More interestingly, this writer has written lines revealing that he can
by no means grasp this very fact which he considers such a menace.

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