Contents

Editor’s Foreword (by John Peterson)

Introduction (by Alan Woods)

I. Genesis and Origins

Theses on Feuerbach (by Karl Marx)

Marx’s Revolution in Philosophy: Reflections on the Theses on Feuerbach (by Alan Woods)

The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism (Excerpt) (by V.I. Lenin)

Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy (by Friedrich Engels)

Fundamental Problems of Marxism (Excerpts) (by Georgi Plekhanov)

II. Dialectics

Anti-Dühring (Excerpts) (by Friedrich Engels)

Dialectics of Nature (Excerpts) (by Friedrich Engels)

Critique of Hegel’s Dialectic and Philosophy as a Whole (by Karl Marx)

Philosophical Notebooks (Excerpts) (by V.I. Lenin)

Trotsky’s Notebooks: Excerpts on Lenin, Dialectics, and Evolutionism (by Leon Trotsky)

III. Materialism vs idealism

England and Materialist Philosophy (by Karl Marx)

The German Ideology (Excerpts) (by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels)

Materialism and Empiriocriticism: Critical Comments on a Reactionary Philosophy (by V.I. Lenin)

IV. The Class Struggle, Party Building, and the Socialist Transition

Reform or Revolution (by Rosa Luxemburg)

History of the Russian Revolution to Brest-Litovsk (by Leon Trotsky)

In Defense of Marxism (Excerpts) (by Leon Trotsky)

The Class, the Party, and the LeadershipWhy Was the Spanish Proletariat Defeated? (by Leon Trotsky)

Dialectical Materialism and Science (by Leon Trotsky)

Radio, Science, Technique,and Society (by Leon Trotsky)