The Categories of Dialectical Materialism

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• I. Combat on Two Fronts.
• A. Significance of Two Condemnations.
• B. Dialectical Materialism faces its Critics.
• C. Stalin and De-Stalinisation.
• II. Categories of Diamat and Categories of Science.
• A. The Need for Cooperation.
• B. The Nature of the Cooperation.
• C. Critical Remarks.
• III. Definition of the Notion of Category.
• A. Precursors.
• B. Abstraction of the Categories.
• C. The ‘Theory of Reflection’ and Empiricism.
• IV. The Dialectic of the Categories.
• A. Dialectification of the Categories.
• B. Refusal of a Dialectification of the Categories.
• C. Identity of Logic, Dialectic and Epistemology?.
• D. System and Method in Hegel.
• E. Objective Truth: Absolute and Relative.
• V. The Category of Matter: Basis of Ontology.
• A. Vulgar Materialism and Dialectical Materialism.
• B. The Attributes of Matter.
• C. The Materialism of Practice and the Materialism of Matter.
• VI. Dialectical Contradiction.
• A. Matter and Movement: Evolution.
• B. Dialectical Contradiction.
• C. Transition from Quantity to Quality.
• D. The Law of Negation of Negation.
• VII. Causality-Finality.
• A. The Category of Causality.
• B. The Category of Finality.
• Conclusion.
• Index of Names.