"I have never felt so much the value of abstract things, of theory seen in its proper relation to practice, than just now. I think I can see things in their proper proportions. I have myself a lively and intense desire to explore whole fields of theoretical work, mathematical, physical, logical and far beyond these, when the conditions for this will become again possible."
-- Letter from Spain, David Guest, British communist mathematician, killed fighting fascism in Spain in 1938
SOURCE: Sheehan, Helena. Marxism and the Philosophy of Science: A Critical History (Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1985, p. 347.
For more historical overview, see also my bibliography:
British Marxism in Philosophy, Science, and Culture Before the New Left: Essential Historical Surveys
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