Fundamentals of philosophical knowledge. Marxist philosophy in publicly available. Afanasyev V.G.

This book is written for the reader, who first begins to study Marxist-Leninist philosophy. In a publicly accessible form, the foundations of Marxist philosophical knowledge are presented. The first three chapters show how in the struggle of materialism and idealism, dialectics and metaphysics arose and developed a dialectical-materialistic worldview. The following are the main issues of dialectical and historical materialism.

A book awarded the USSR State Prize (1983) was at one time a textbook for students of schools of Marxism-Leninism of the Party Education system. It can be recommended by a wide range of readers who are interested in the history of economic, social and political teachings, the laws of development of society and the state, the history and theory of Marxism and socialism.