“Adam,” capitalist
Adler, Max
Alchemists
Alexander
Aristotle
Avenarius, Ref 2
Avogadro
Axelrod, Ref 2
Ayer
Bacon, Ref 2, Ref 3
Basle manifesto
Belinsky
Bergson, Ref 2
Berkeley, Ref 2, Ref 3, Ref 4, Ref 5, Ref 6, Ref 7, Ref 8
Bogdanov, Ref 2, Ref 3, Ref 4, Ref 5, Ref 6
Bosanquet
Boyle, Ref 2
Bradley, Ref 2, Ref 3, Ref 4, Ref 5
Brest Litovsk
Bruhl
Bukharin, Ref 2, Ref 3, Ref 4, Ref 5, Ref 6, Ref 7, Ref 8, Ref 9, Ref 10, Ref 11, Ref 12
Cantor
Cartwright
Chesterton
Croce
Cromwell
Quotations:
Eternal cycle of matter, Ref 2
Criterion of practice, Ref 2
Development of organic chemistry
Darwin’s theory of struggle for existence compared with bourgeois economic theories of competition
Helmholtz
Characterization of scientific knowledge
Notion of the causal connection of phenomena
Basic contradiction of modem society
Dialectic
World not composed of ready-made objects, Ref 2
Movement
Letter to Conrad Schmidt
Universal connection
Definition of “the object” with which natural science deals
Co-ordination of the sense organs
Means of demonstrating correctness of a conception of a phenomenon
Dialectical philosophy
Enumeration of objects
Mechanics
Systematic order of bodies
Non-existence of qualities as such
Links in development
Contradiction
Destiny of the state-machine
“A return to Pythagoras”
Albumen
Life
Organic and inorganic bodies
Interconnection of the sciences
Scientific development
Mendeleyev
The natural system
Social property
Negation
Illustration from barley seed
Illustration from butterflies
Illustration from dahlia and orchid
Essence of law of negation of negation
Return to conceptions of founders of Greek philosophy
Antagonistic processes
References:
Referred to by Lenin
General picture of the development of knowledge
Quotations:
Succession of philosophic systems
Contradiction the root of all systems
Exploitation of forces of nature
Quality
Properties and the existence of an object
Transition of quantity into quality
Quoted by Lenin
Cited by Lenin
Synthesis of ideas
References:
Universal connection
Absolute spirit
Cause of historic process
Napoleon
The real and the rational
Ambiguity of his philosophy
Criticized by Feuerbach, Ref 2, Ref 3
Reproaches Kant
Attempt to express absolute knowledge idealistically
Development by means of contradictions
Marx and Engels first to show revolutionary implications of Hegelian philosophy
Essence of dialectic
Expounded by Plekhanov
Great service of
Adapted by Deborin
Adapted by Bukharin
Agrees with Spinoza
Notes by Lenin on Hegelian dialectic
Quantity “indifferent” to definiteness of the object
Definition of quantity
Connection of quantitative and qualitative changes
Ideology of fascism due to
Application by Deborin
Hegelian self-movement criticized by Kautsky
Sublation
Note by Lenin to Hegel’s “Logic”
Conflict of Second Party Congress “according to Hegel”
Quotations:
Idealism
Kant’s philosophy
The proletariat
Pragmatism
Development of knowledge
Zeno
Mach
Criticizes Plekhanov
Actuality reflected by ideas more truly than by representation
“Eternal” forms of logical thought
Practice superior to theoretical knowledge
Source of truth, Ref 2
Plekhanov’s programme for Second Party Congress
Relativity and absoluteness of truth
Attempt of Second International to refute the Basle Manifesto
Complete knowledge of object unattainable
Two fundamental conceptions of development
Movement and self-movement
Essence of dialectic
Knowledge
Identity of opposites
Contradictions of capitalism
Definition of dialectic
When it is possible to unite opposites
Antagonism and contradiction not the same
Capital, by Marx
Unity and conflict of opposites
Eternal preservation of small-scale production
Need for scrutiny of the thing itself
Human practice and the objective world
Origin of revolution
Proletarian dictatorship
Materialist revision of Hegel’s dialectic
Dialectic not the same as relativism
Dreams of world-harmony
Dual existence of every concrete thing
Universal connection, Ref 2
Unity of self-movement and general connection
Notes on Hegelian dialectic
Purposeful action
Citation of Dietzgen
Definition of the finite
Characteristic of capitalism
Free competition
Imperialism
Leap not an instantaneous change
Three principal phases in history of monopolies
Difference in attitude of revisionists and anarchist-syndicalists
Human history as well as nature includes both leaps and slow evolution
Democracy
Workers’ movement
Gravedigger of capitalism
A co-operative
Key to “leaps,” etc.
Relation of reform to revolution
Citation of Hegel
Leap from capitalism to socialism
Act of birth
Transitional period
Relative weakness of the new, Ref 2
Stages of the transition to socialism
Transition of qualities, etc., into their opposites
Mathematics indifferent to quality
Use of statistics
Bourgeois representation of socialism as a rigid, dead system
Transition of capitalism to imperialism
Measurement
Basic trait of opportunism
Dialectical materialism
Dialectical “moment”
Negation
Development
Summing up of the voting of the Second Congress
References:
Machism
Disclosure of qualitative uniqueness of processes or things
Transition of quantity into quality
Soviet state a “half state”
Great contribution of
Debate on trade unions
“Iskra” and anti-“Iskra” groups
Quotations:
Division of labour
On Hegelian dialectic
Breaks with the “free men”
Objective truth
“Thingified” character of production relations
Distortion of relations of society
Fetishistic form of relations of capitalist production
Utopian Socialism
Mistress Quickly
Education of the five senses
Proletariat and riches are contradictory
Essence of dialectical movement
Classless society
Foreword to Volume I of Capital
Reflex relations
Exploitation of forces of nature, Ref 2
Labour a process between man and nature
Incorporation of labour, Ref 2
Development of social man
Limits of magnitude of capitalist enterprise
Production in general
Transition from small-scale to capitalist production
Epochs of economic history
“Historic tendency of capitalist accumulation”
Private ownership of means of production
Criticism of Hegel
References:
Derivation from Hegel
Differs from Hegel
Shaw’s comment on
Cause of historic process
Reveals weakness of Feuerbach’s position
Materialism prior to Marx
Process of labour
Criterion of practice
Capitalist relations
Economical survey of history by
Theory of value
Birth pangs connected with transition of capitalism into socialism
Use of mathematical formulae
Pre-history and real history
Categories of Capital to be explained by electrons
Explained by Zeitlin
Law of population
Quotations:
From Idealism to Materialism an excerpt
Überweg
Exposition of Hegel
Wrong approach to dialectic
Incomprehension of Marx-Leninist view of movement
Criticizes Mikhailovsky
References:
Mechanical interpretation of contradiction
Theory of hieroglyphs
Quotations:
Possibility of socialist victory in one country
N.E.P.
Example of mutual penetration of opposites
Difficulties of development of Russian socialist economy
Bukharin
Theory of equilibrium
“We are for the extinction of the state”
Issue from the transition period
Collective farms
Importance of practical knowledge
The kulaks
References:
The transitional economy
Proletariat of U.S.S.R.
Six Conditions
Amplification of Marx, Ref 2
Basis of instructions of
Dialectic of transitional period
Failures of industrial planning
Kulak question
Transition to developed socialism
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