V. I. LENIN


  MATERIALISM  
AND
EMPIRIO-
CRITICISM

[Part I]
FOREIGN LANGUAGES PRESS
PEKING 1972


First Edition 1972



Prepared © for the Internet by David J. Romagnolo, [email protected] (August 1997)

PUBLISHER'S NOTE


 
C O N T E N T S

[Part I]


TEN QUESTIONS TO A LECTURER
 

1
 

MATERIALISM AND EMPIRIO-CRITICISM
  Critical Comments on a Reactionary Philosophy


3

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION

5

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION

8

In Lieu of Introduction
HOW CERTAIN "MARXISTS" IN 1908 AND CERTAIN IDEALISTS
  IN 1710 REFUTED MATERIALISM


 
9

Chapter One
THE THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE OF EMPIRIO-CRITICISM AND OF
  DIALECTICAL MATERIALISM. I


 
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2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

Sensations and Complexes of Sensations
"The Discovery of the World-Elements"
The Principal Co-ordination and "Naive Realism"
Did Nature Exist Prior to Man?
Does Man Think with the Help of the Brain?
The Solipsism of Mach and Avenarius

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Chapter Two
THE THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE OF EMPIRIO-CRITICISM AND OF
  DIALECTICAL MATERIALISM. II


 
104

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2.
3.
4.
5.
 
6.

The "Thing-in-Itself," or V. Chernov Refutes Frederick Engels
"Transcendence," or Bazarov "Revises" Engels"
L. Feuerbach and J. Dietzgen on the Thing-in-Itself
Does Objective Truth Exist?
Absolute and Relative Truth, or the Eclecticism of Engels as Discovered by A Bogdanov
The Criterion of Practice in the Theory of Knowledge


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NOTES




From Marx
to Mao

Lenin
Collection

Notes on
the Text
Below

On to
Chapters
3 and 4




From Marx
to Mao

Lenin
Collection

Reading
Guide

On to
Chapters
3 and 4