4 AUTHOR’S NOTE ON THE FOURTH EDITION
  PART ONE
  MATERIALISM
  Chapter One • PARTY PHILOSOPHY
5 Party Philosophy and Class Philosophy
11 Class Philosophy and Truth
14 A Revolution in Philosophy
  Chapter Two • MATERIALISM AND IDEALISM
17 Materialism and Idealism—Opposed Ways of Interpreting Every Question
20 Idealism and the Supernatural
22 Some Varieties of Present-day Idealist Philosophy
24 The Basic Teachings of Materialism in Opposition to Idealism
25 Materialism and Idealism in Practice
  Chapter Three • MECHANISTIC MATERIALISM
29 The Changing World and How to Understand It
31 A Bourgeois Philosophy
32 The World and the Machine
34 The Strength and Achievement of Mechanistic Materialism
36 The Weakness and Limitations of Mechanistic Materialism
37 Mechanistic Materialism and Utopian Socialism
  Chapter Four • FROM MECHANISTIC TO DIALECTICAL MATERIALISM
40 Things and Processes
41 Matter and Motion
43 The Forms of Motion of Matter
46 Things and their Interconnection
47 The Correction of Mechanistic Materialism
  Chapter Five • THE DIALECTICAL CONCEPTION OF DEVELOPMENT
49 The Idea of Evolution
51 Idealist Conceptions of Change and Development
53 The Dialectical Materialist Conception of Development
54 [From Hegel to Marx] [1960 ed.]
  PART TWO
  DIALECTICS
  Chapter Six • DIALECTICS AND METAPHYSICS
55 The Metaphysical Way of Thinking
61 The Metaphysical "Either-Or"
65 The Unity and Struggle of Opposites
68 Dialectics and Metaphysics
  Chapter Seven • CHANGE AND INTERCONNECTION
71 The Dialectical versus the Metaphysical Way of Thinking
72 Considering Things in Their Interconnection and Circumstances
75 Dialectics and Scientific Method
76 Considering Things in their Movement
77 Against "Ready-made Schemes’“—”Truth is Always Concrete"
  Chapter Eight • THE LAWS OF DEVELOPMENT
81 What Do We Mean by “Development”?
82 Quantity and Quality; The Law of the Transformation of Quantitative into Qualitative Changes
85 Development Takes Place Through the Unity and Struggle of Opposites
87 Dialectics of Social Development—The Contradictions of Capitalism
  Chapter Nine • CONTRADICTION
90 Contradictions Inherent in Processes
92 Contradiction Consists of the Unity and Struggle of Opposites
94 The Working Out of Contradictions
95 The Universality and Particularity of Contradictions
97 The Outcome of Contradictions
99 External and Internal Causes of Qualitative Change
101 The Suddenness and Gradualness of Qualitative Change
105 Antagonism and Non-antagonism in Contradictions
  Chapter Ten • DEVELOPMENT AND NEGATION
108 The Forward Movement of Development
110 The Contradiction between Old and New, Past and Future
113 The Role of Negation in Development
114 The Positive Character of Negation
116 Negation of Negation
  Chapter Eleven • A SCIENTIFIC WORLD OUTLOOK
120 Science and Materialism
122 Science and Socialism
123 Conclusions
127 READING LIST
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