4 Foreword
  PART ONE: MATERIALISM
  1. Party Philosophy
5 Party Philosophy and Class Philosophy
9 Class Philosophy and Truth
12 A Revolution in Philosophy
  2. Materialism and Idealism
15 Materialism and Idealism—Opposed Ways of Interpreting Every Question
18 Idealism and the Supernatural
20 Some Varieties of Present-day Idealist Philosophy
22 The Basic Teachings of Materialism in Opposition to Idealism
24 Materialism and Idealism in Practice
26 The Fight for Materialism
  3. Mechanistic Materialism
28 The Changing World and How to Understand It
30 A Bourgeois Philosophy
32 The World and the Machine
33 The Strength and Achievement of Mechanistic Materialism
35 The Weakness and Limitations of Mechanistic Materialism
36 Mechanistic Materialism and Utopian Socialism
  4. From Mechanistic to Dialectical Materialism
39 Things and Processes
40 Matter and Motion
42 The Forms of Motion of Matter
45 Things and Their Interconnection
46 The Correction of Mechanistic Materialism.
  5. The Dialectical Conception of Development
47 The Idea of Evolution
49 Idealist Conceptions of Change and Development
51 The Dialectical Materialist Conception of Development
52 From Hegel to Marx
  PART TWO: DIALECTICS
  6. Dialectics and Metaphysics
56 [introduction.]
60 The Metaphysical "Either-Or"
64 The Unity and Struggle of Opposites
67 Dialectics and Metaphysics
  7. Change and Interconnection
69 Four Principal Features of the Marxist Dialectical Method
70 Considering Things in Their Interconnection and Circumstances
74 Considering Things in Their Movement,     Their Coming into Being and Going Out of Being
75 Against "Ready-made Schemes"— "Truth Is Always Concrete"
  8. The Laws of Development
79 What Do We Mean by “Development”?
80 Quantity and Quality: The Law of the Transformation of Quantitative into Qualitative Changes
83 Development Takes Place Through the Unity and Struggle of Opposites
85 Dialectics of Social Development— The Contradictions of Capitalism
  9. Contradiction
88 Contradictions Inherent in Processes
90 Contradiction Consists of the Unity and Struggle of Opposites
92 The Working Out of Contradictions
93 The Universality and Particularity of Contradictions
  10. The Old and the New
96 The Outcome of Contradictions
98 External and Internal Causes of Qualitative Change
100 The Suddenness and Gradualness of Qualitative Change
103 Antagonism and Non-antagonism in Contradictions
105 The Forward Movement of Development
107 The Contradiction Between Old and New, Past and Future
110 The Role of Negation in Development
  11. The Negation of Negation
112 The Positive Character of Negation
114 Negation of Negation
115 A Comprehensive and Important Law of Development
  12. Criticism and Self-Criticism
119 A New Type of Development
121 Human Perspectives
122 Creative Marxism
124 Criticism and Self-Criticism, a Lever of Progress
  13. Dialectical Materialism and Science
126 A Scientific World Outlook
128 Science and Materialism
130 Science and Dialectics
133 The Crisis of Science in the Capitalist World
135 The New Against the Old in Science
137 Conclusions
141 Bibliography
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