Materialism and Empirio-Criticism

It is a devastating attack against modern idealism a brilliant defence of the materialist standpoint and a development of the basic ideas of dialectical materialism in the light of scientific discovery....The book is something more than a criticism of Bogdanov Yushkevich Bazarov and Valentinov and their teachers in philosophy Avenarius and Mach who endeavoured in their writings to offer a refined and polished idealism as opposed to Marxist materialism; it is at the same time a defence of the theoretical foundations of Marxism—dialectical and historical materialism—and a materialist generalization of everything important and essential acquired by science and especially the natural sciences in the course of a whole historical period the period from Engels death to the appearance of Lenins Materialism and Empirio-Criticism. — From History of CPSU (B) The present English edition of V. I. Lenin’s Materialism and Empirio-Criticism is a reprint of the text given in the book under the same title published by the Foreign Languages Publishing House Moscow. It contains “Ten Questions to a Lecturer” a reprint from the text given in Collected Works of V. I. Lenin English editon Vol 14. The notes at the end of the book are based on those given in the Chinese edition published by the Peoples’ Publishing House Peking April 1971.