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INTRODUCTION TO MARXISM-LENINISMSECTION I: The Fundamentals of Marxist PhilosophyLesson 1 - Philosophical Materialism
TEXTS FOR DISCUSSION“The great basic question of all philosophy, especially of modern philosophy, is that concerning the relation of thinking and being - spirit and nature...which is primary spirit or nature... The answer which the philosophers gave to this question split them into two great camps. Those who asserted the primacy of spirit to nature and, therefore, in the last instance, assumed world creation in some form or other...comprised the camp of idealism. The others who regarded nature as primary belong to the various schools of materialism.”
“The real unity of the world consists in its materiality, and this is proved ... by a long and wearisome development of philosophy and natural science.... Motion is the mode of existence of matter. Never anywhere has there been matter without motion, or motion without matter, nor can there be.... But if the ... question is raised: what thought and consciousness really are, and where they come from; it becomes apparent they are products of the human brain and man himself is a product of Nature, which has developed in and along with its environment; hence it is self-evident that the products of the human brain, being in the last analysis also products of Nature, do not contradict the rest of Nature’s interconnections but are in correspondence with them ....
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Further and Recommended ReadingMaterialism (Marxist Internet Archive: Encyclopedia of Marxism: Glossary of Terms)
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