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Chapter 2: Materialist Dialectics
Marxist materialist dialectics is the most profound, comprehensive and fruitful theory of motion and development. It is a summing up of the many centuries of our cognition of the world, a generalisation of the boundless data of social practice. Materialist dialectics and philosophical materialism are inseparably connected. They are interwoven, being two aspects of the…
Chapter 1: Philosophical Materialism
The indestructible foundation of the whole edifice of Marxism-Leninism is its philosophy—dialectical and historical materialism. That philosophy regards the world as it actually is, views it in the light of the data provided by progressive science and social practice. Marxist philosophical materialism is the logical outcome of scientific knowledge gained over the centuries. 1. The…
Preface to the Second Edition
The first edition of Fundamentals of Marxism-Leninism was highly acclaimed by the Soviet and international Communist press. A great many propagandists and teachers of Marxism acknowledged its value as a useful educational aid, easy to understand while being at the same time a competent scientific exposition of the fundamentals of Marxism-Leninism as an integral science….
Introductory Remarks
Marx’s teaching is all-powerful because it is true. Lenin Mastery of the fundamentals of Marxism-Leninism requires serious and thoughtful study and, consequently, much work and time. What are the fruits of such a study? Put briefly, the answer is that it gives us an integral world outlook, the most progressive outlook of our time, one…
Report on the Principles of Public Morality
Source: Richard Bienvenu, The Ninth of Thermidor, Oxford University Press. 1970. Maximilien Robespierre, 5 February 1794. In this speech to the Convention, delivered on 5 February 1794, Robespierre offered a justification of the Terror. By this date, the Federalist revolt and Vendée uprisings had been by and large pacified and the threat of invasion by…
The Manifesto of Equals
Source: Ph. Buonarroti. La conspiration pour l’égalité, Editions Sociales, Paris. 1957;Translated: Mitchell Abidor;CopyLeft: Creative Commons (Attribute & ShareAlike) marxists.org 2004, 2016. Written by Sylvain Marechal, one of the conspirators, the Manifesto didn’t meet with unanimous support from the directors of the revolt. Especially contested was Marechal’s “Let the arts perish, if need be, as long as real…