Socialism and philosophy

RedSun at 02h48
22
Jan
2012
Socialism and philosophy

In my reading about socialist thinkers past and present, I keep coming across mention of abstract philosophical ideas that seem not to have anything to do with socialism. For example, there's Marx and Lenin talking about 'dialectic', and I'm just now reading an article which is apparently about Badiou and modern adaptations of Maoism but goes into a whole bunch of ontological ideas on the way.
What is the necessity of such philosophical speculation, and
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