A TEXT BOOK O F MARXIST PHILOSOPHY

Prepared by the Leningrad Institute of Philosophy under the Direction of
M. Shirokov 1941 (Download as pdf)

Preface Introduction
What is Dialectic?
Why Materialism?, Emergent Evolution
The Dialectic of Social Change
Dialectics and Metaphysics, Dialectical Materialism and Contemporary Philosophy
Philosophy and Politics, The Impossibility of Dogmatism
Does Philosophy matter ? Why not do without Philosophy ?

The Relation of Theory and Practice, Until Philosophers are Kings

SE C T I O N  I

H I ST OR I C A L

Chapter I
The Conflict between Idealism and Materialism 
The character of Materialist Thinking
Subjective İdealism
Kant and Hegel
Recent İdealism

Dialectic as a Theory of Knowledge 

Moments of Knowledge of Actuality 

The Doctrine of Truth 

S E C T I O N I I

U N I TY  A N D  T H E  ST R I F E  O F  O P P OS I TE S

Chapter
I. The Law of the Unity and Conflict of Opposites 

II. The Division of Unity, the Disclosure of Essential Opposites 

III. Mutual Penetration of Opposites 

IV. Analysis of the Movement of the Contradiction of a process from its Beginning to its End 

V. The Relativity of the Unity of Opposites and the Absoluteness of their Conflict

VI. Theory of Equilibrium 

S E C T I O N III

TH E  LA W   O F  T H E T R A N S I T I O N OF QU A N T I T Y  I N T O  QUA L I T Y

Chapter
 I. From Naive Dialectic to the Metaphysics of Properties 

II. From the Metaphysic of Properties to the Metaphysic of Relations 

III. Quality and the Self Movement of Matter 

IV. The Relativity of Qualities -and the Universal Connection of Things

V. The Dialectic of Quality and Property 

VI. The Transition of Quantity into Quality 

VII. Contradiction and the Evolutionary Leap 

VIII. The Dialectic of the " Leap " 

IX. The Transition of Quality into Quantity 

X. The Problem of " Levelling Down " 

XL The Nodal Line of Measurements 

S E C T I O N   I V

T H E N E GA T I O N O F T H E N E G A T I O N