The Dogmatic Principles of Soviet Philosophy [as of 1958]

§ 1 The Object of Philosophy.- 1.1 The Basic Problem of Philosophy. Materialism and Idealism as the Main Currents of Philosophy.- 1.2 The Object of Marxist Philosophy. The Relationship of Philosophy to the Other Sciences.- 1.3 Diahistomat as the Conceptual Weapon of the Revolutionary Proletariat.- § 2 The Conflict between Materialism and Idealism in the History of Pre-Marxist Philosophy).- § 3 The Birth and Development of Marxist Philosophy).- I. Dialectical Materialism.- § 4 Matter and its Existential Forms.- 4.1 Matter.- 4.2 The Movement of Matter.- 4.3 Space and Time.- 4.4 The Unity of the World.- § 5 Matter and Consciousness.- 5.1 Consciousness as an Attribute of Highly Organized Matter.- 5.2 Consciousness as Reflection of the External World.- 5.3 Critique of the “Theory of Symbols”. Objective Truth.- 5.4 Language and Thinking.- § 6 The Regular Connection of the Phenomena of Reality.- 6.1 Connection of Phenomena. Cause and Effect.- 6.2 Law as the Form of Connection of Phenomena The Individual, Particular and Universal.- 6.3 Necessity and Contingency.- 6.4 Possibility and Reality.- § 7 The Basic Laws of the Dialectic. The Law of the Transition of Quantitative Changes into Qualitative.- 7.1 The Dialectical Theory of Development.- 7.2 Quantitative and Qualitative Changes; the transition of One into the Other.- 7.3 Unity of the Evolutionary and Revolutionary Forms of Development. The Leaps.- 7.4 On the Diverse Forms of the Transition from the Old to the New Quality.- § 8 The Law of the Unity and Conflict of Contraries.- 8.1 Objects and Phenomena as Unities of Contraries. The Conflict of Contraries as Source of Development.- 8.2 Internal and External Contradictions.- 8.3 Specific Properties of Various Contradictions.- 8.4 Content and Form. Root and Resolution of Their Contradictions.- § 9 The Law of the Negation of Negation.- 9.1 Essence and Role of the Dialectical Negation in the Process of Development.- 9.2 The Progressive character of Development and its Forms.- § 10 The Dialectic of the Process of Knowledge.- 10.1 The Dialectic as Theory of Knowledge. Dialectical and Formal Logic.- 10.2 Correlation of the Sensible and the Rational in Knowledge. Essence and Appearance.- 10.3 The Dialectic of the Abstract and Concrete, of the Logical and Historical.- 10.4 The Forms of Thought and Their Role in Knowledge.- 10.5 Practice as the Basis of Knowledge and the Criterion of Truth.- 10.6 The Dialectic of Absolute and Relative Truth.- II. Historical Materialism.- § 11 Historical Materialism as the Science of the Developmental Laws of Society.- 11.1 The Object of Histomat.- 11.2 The Origin of Histomat as a Revolution in the Social Sciences.- 11.3 Character of the Regularities of Social Life and of the Development of Society.- 11.4 Historical Regularity and the Consciousness of Men. Freedom and Necessity.- 11.5 The Party-Mindedness of Histomat.- § 12 Material Production: The Basis of Social Life.- 12.1 The Role of Work in the Coming To Be and in the Life of Society.- 12.2 Geographical Milieu and the Development of Society.- 12.3 The Significance of Population Growth in the Development of Society.- 12.4 Means of the Production of Material Goods. Forces of Production and Relations of Production.- 12.5 The Determining Role of the Means of Production in the Changes of Form of Social Life.- § 13 The Dialectic of the Forces of Production and the Relations of Production.- 13.1 Dependency of the Relations of Production on the Character of the Forces of Production.- 13.2 The Reaction of the Relations of Production on the Development of the Forces of Production.- 13.3 The Development of the Contradictions Between the Forces of Production and the Relations of Production Under Capitalism.- 13.4 The Reciprocal Relationship of the Forces of Production and the Relations of Production Under Socialism.- § 14 The Base and the Superstructure of Society.- 14.1 Meaning of Base and Superstructure. The Determining Role of the Base in Reference to the Superstructure.- 14.2 Upheaval in the Base and in the Superstructure of Society.- 14.3 The Active Role of the Superstructure.- § 15 Classes, Class Conflict, State.- 15.1 The Definition of Classes.- 15.2 The Origin of Classes. The Class Structure of Society and its Dependence on the Mode of Production.- 15.3 Class Interest and Class Conflict. Classes and Parties.- 15.4 The State as Product of the Incompatibility of Classes and as Organ of Class Domination.- 15.5 Forms of Class War and the Class Organization of the Proletariat.- 15.6 The Role of the Marxist Party in the Class Conflict of the Proletariat.- 15.7 The Necessity of the Disappearance of Classes. The Universally Historical Mission of the Proletariat.- § 16 The Social Revolution as Law-Bound Change of Socio-Economic Formations.- 16.1 Social Revolutions. Their Causes and Their Significance in the History of Society.- 16.2 The Difference Between the Socialist Revolution and Other Revolutions. The Socialist Revolution and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.- 16.3 Conditions of the Socialist Revolution in the Period of Imperialism.- 16.4 Relations Between the Democratic and Socialist Changes During the Period of Imperialism and the Proletarian Revolutions.- 16.5 The Relationship of the Armed Fight and the Peaceful Form of Battle for Power. The Multiformity of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.- 16.6 The Transition Period from Capitalism to Socialism.- 16.7 Class and State Under Socialism.- 16.8 The Communist Party as Directing Force in the System of the Dictatorship of the Working Class.- 16.9 The Coexistence of Socialism and Capitalism and the Inevitability of the Victory of Socialism in all Lands.- § 17 Social Consciousness and its Role in the Life of Society.- 17.1 Social Consciousness as Reflection of Social Being. The Class Character of Ideology.- 17.2 Forms of Social Consciousness.- 17.3 Social Psychology and Ideology. Social and Individual Consciousness.- 17.4 The Relative Autonomy of the Development of Social Ideas.- 17.5 The Role of Ideas in Social Development.- 17.6 The Role of Socialist Ideology in the Battle for the Victory of Communism.- § 18 The Role of the Popular Masses and of Individuals in History.- 18.1 The Popular Masses as the Decisive Force in the Development of Society and as Creator of History.- 18.2 Role of the Individual in History.- 18.3 The Role of the Leaders of the Working Class in the Revolutionary Movement.- § 19 The Main Tendencies of Contemporary Bourgeois Philosophy and Sociology).