What’s the Problem with Lenin’s Materialism and Empirio-Criticism?
The modern-day left continues to repeat fairy tales that Lenin’s early philosophical work is vulgar, undialectical and abandoned by its author in later years. None …
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History and Practice: Meditations Upon Marx’s ‘Theses on Feuerbach’ and Pragmatic Materialism
Adeeb Kasem meditates on the implications of Marx’s ‘Theses on Feuerbach’ and argues that historical and dialectical materialism form part of a broader pragmatic materialist …
The Role of Marxist Philosophy
Drawing from the work of Marxist philosophers such as Althusser and Lukács, Yanis Iqbal outlines the basic premises of dialectical materialism. The French Marxist Louis …
The Dialectics Of Stephen Jay Gould: Contingency, Convergence And Spandrels
Interview by Mitchell Thompson. University of Oregon Professor Richard York argues in his book, co-authored with Brett Clark, that Stephen Jay Gould is a crucial …
The Philosophical Structure of Education
Yanis Iqbal summarizes a dialectical materialist approach to knowledge and education, drawing from the work of E.V. Ilyenkov. When education becomes a commodity – when …
Dialectical Materialism, Marxist Realism and Quantum Mechanics
Djamil and Rudy sit down for a hardcore episode on the interaction between Soviet diamat philosophy and Quantum Mechanics. We discuss the analytic core of …