Dialectical materialism : an introductory course / by Maurice Cornforth

Includes Index.

Materialism Party philosophy Materialism and idealism Mechanistic Materialism Form mechanistic to dialectical materialism The dialectical conception of development Dialectics Dialects and metaphysics Change the interconnection The laws of development Contradiction The old and the new The negation and negation Criticism and self criticism Dialectical materialism and science General principles Scientific socialism Materialism and the science of society The role of ideas in social life How society develops The mode of production Fundamental laws of social development Economic laws and their utilization The social superstructure Class ideas and class rules The future socialism and communism Motive forces of the development from socialism to communism Planned production The nature and origin of the mind Mind and body Mind as product and reflection of matter Social labour and social thinking Thought, language and logic The development of ideas Abstract ideas aideology Ideological illusions Science Science and socialism Truth and freedom Truth The roots of knowledge The growth of knowledge Necessity and freedom The realisation of freedom