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Foreword
Introduction
What is philosophy?
Why do we need to study philosophy?
What philosophy should we study?
A scientific philosophy: dialectical materialism
A revolutionary philosophy: the philosophy of the proletariat
Conclusion: unity of theory and practice
Study of the marxist dialectical method
The dialectical method
What is a method?
The metaphysical method
Its characters
Its historical significance
The dialectical method
Its characters
Its historical background
Formal logic and dialectical method
Traits of dialectics
Everything is connected (law of reciprocal action and universal connection)
An example
The first trait of dialectics
In nature
In society
Conclusion
Control issues
Everything is changing (law of universal change and of the continuous development)
An example
The second trait of dialectics
In nature
In society
Conclusion
Control issues
Qualitative change
An example
The third trait of dialectics
In nature
In society
Conclusion
Remarks
Control issues
The struggle of opposites (i)
The struggle of opposites is the driving force behind any change. An example
The fourth trait of the dialectic
Features of the contradiction
The contradiction is internal
The contradiction is innovative
Unity of opposites
Control issues
The struggle of opposites (ii)
Universality of contradiction
In nature
In the company
Antagonism and contradiction
The struggle of opposites, the driving force of thought
Control issues
The struggle of opposites (iii)
The specific nature of the contradiction
Universal and specific are inseparable
Main contradiction, secondary contradictions
Main and secondary aspects of the contradiction
General conclusion on contradiction – marxism versus proudhonism
Control issues
Study of marxist philosophical materialism
What is the materialistic conception of the world?
i. the two meanings of materialism
ii. matter and spirit
iii. the fundamental problem of philosophy
iv. the two meanings of the word "idealism".
v. materialism and idealism are opposed in practice as well as in theory
vi. Marxist philosophical materialism is distinguished by three fundamental features
control issues
Traits of marxist materialism
The materiality of the world
The idealistic attitude
The marxist conception
Matter and movement
Natural necessity
Marxism and religion
Conclusion
Control issues
Matter is prior to consciousness
New idealistic subterfuge
The marxist conception
Objectivity of being
Consciousness, reflection of the being
Thought and the brain
Two degrees of knowledge
Conclusion
Control issues
The world is knowable
The ultimate refuge of idealism
The marxist conception
The role of practice
A falsification of the marxist notion of practice
Relative and absolute truth
The union of theory and practice
Control issues
Dialectical materialism and the spiritual life of society
The spiritual life of the society is a reflection of its material life
An example
Idealistic "explanations
The dialectical materialist thesis
The material life of the society is an objective reality existing independently of the conscience and the will not only of individuals, but of man in general
The spiritual life of the society is a reflection of the objective reality of the society
How new ideas and social theories emerge
The issue of survivorship
Conclusion
Control issues
The role and importance of ideas in social life
An example
The error of vulgar materialism
The dialectical materialist thesis
It is the material origin of the ideas which founds their power
Old and new ideas
New ideas have an organizing, mobilizing and transforming action
Conclusion
Control issues
The formation, importance and role of scientific socialism
The three sources of marxism
German philosophy
English political economy
French socialism
Utopian socialism
Scientific socialism
a) Its evolution
b) Its traits
The role of scientific socialism
The fusion of socialism and the labor movement
Necessity of the Communist Party: criticism of "spontaneity"
Conclusion
Control issues
Historical materialism
fifteenth lesson. - production: productive forces and production relationships
i. the conditions of the material life of the company
(a) the geographic setting
(b) the population
ii. the method of production
a) productive forces
b) production reports
iii. ownership of the means of production
iv. the change in production methods, a key to the history of companies
v. conclusion
control issues
sixteenth lesson. - the law of necessary correspondence between the relations of production and the character of the productive forces
i. productive forces are the most mobile and revolutionary element of production
ii. the feedback of production reports on the productive forces
iii. the necessary law of correspondence
iv. the role of human action
control issues
seventeenth lesson. - the class struggle before capitalism
i. the origins of the company
ii. the appearance of classes
iii. slave and feudal societies
iv. the development of the bourgeoisie
control issues
eighteenth lesson. - the contradictions of capitalist society
i. capitalist relations of production: their specific contradiction
ii. the law of correspondence necessary in capitalist society
a) the correspondence between capitalist relations of production and the character of the productive forces
b) the conflict between capitalist relations of production and the character of the productive forces
iii. the class struggle of the proletariat as a method for resolving the contradiction between the relations of production and the productive forces
iv. conclusion
control issues
nineteenth lesson. - the superstructure
i. what is the superstructure?
ii. the superstructure is generated by the base
iii. the superstructure is an active force
iv. the superstructure is not directly related to production
v. conclusion
control issues
twentieth lesson. - socialism
i. distribution and production
ii. the economic basis of socialism
iii. objective conditions for the transition to socialism
iv. the fundamental law of socialism
v. subjective conditions of the transition to socialism and its development
vi. conclusion
control issues
twenty-first lesson. - from socialism to communism
i. the first phase of communist society
ii. the upper phase of communist society
iii. productive forces and production relations under socialism
iv. the conditions of the transition from socialism to communism
v. conclusion
control issues
The materialist theory of state and nation
twenty-second lesson. - the state
i. the state and the "general interest".
ii. the state, produces irreconcilable class antagonisms
a) origin of the state
b) historical role of the state
iii. the content and form of the statement
a) the social content of the state
(b) the form of the state
iv. class struggle and freedom
a) the bourgeoisie and "freedom".
b) the proletariat and freedoms
control issues
twenty-third lesson. - the nation (i)
i. nation and social class
ii. the scientific conception of the nation
a) what is a nation?
b) some mistakes to avoid
iii. the bourgeoisie and the nation
a) the formation of bourgeois nations
b) the bourgeoisie at the head of the nation
c) the bourgeoisie traitor to the nation
iv. the working class and the nation
a) proletarian internationalism
b) proletarian patriotism
control issues
twenty-fourth lesson. - the nation (ii)
i. the colonial question: the right of nations to self-determination