Marxism is dialectical, Novack explains. It considers all phenomena in their development, in their transition from one state to another. And it is materialist, explaining the world as matter in motion that exists prior to and independently of human consciousness. 
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An Introduction to the Logic of Marxism

Politics & Social Sciences

George Novack

Philosophy

Pathfinder Press

Traces the evolution and contradictions of the philosophical outlook of empiricism as an ideological expression of the social system of capitalism.

Empiricism and Its Evolution: A Marxist View

Business & Money

Economics

The rise of a scientific world outlook in ancient Greece, and the development of agriculture, manufacturing, and trade that prepared its way.
List of works cited in book, index.

The Origins of Materialism: The Evolution of a Scientific View of the World

Democracy and Revolution

The limitations and advances of various forms of democracy in class society, from its roots in ancient Greece through its rise and decline under capitalism. Discusses the emergence of Bonapartism, military dictatorship, and fascism, and how democracy will be advanced under a workers and farmers regime.

History

Pathfinder

Alienation from one's fellow human beings is rooted in the development of class society itself, the authors argue. It can be overcome only through the revolutionary fight for a society both free of domination by the capitalist class, and with complete democratic control of the government and economy by working people. 
 Notes.

The Marxist Theory of Alienation

Ernest Mandel

Politics & Government

Participating in the revolutionary workers movement "with open eyes and an intense will--only this can give the highest moral satisfaction to a thinking being," Trotsky writes. He explains how morality is rooted in the interests of contending social classes. With a reply by the pragmatist philosopher John Dewey and a Marxist response to Dewey by George Novack.

Their Morals and Ours: The Class Foundations of Moral Practice

John, Dewey

Leon, Trotsky

Religion & Spirituality

A defense of Marxism against the pragmatism of John Dewey, chief theoretical spokesman in the 1930s of the middle-class democratic movement in the United States.  Index, Further Reading/Bibliography

Pragmatism versus Marxism: An Appraisal of John Dewey’s Philosophy

A historical materialist analysis of the genocide against Native Americans, the American Revolution, the Civil War, the rise of industrial capitalism, and the first wave of the fight for women's rights.
 Index. Now with enlarged type.

America’s Revolutionary Heritage: Marxist Essays

Harry Braverman

Jean Tussey

Americas

A unique personal account of a lifelong rebel by people who knew and worked with him.
 Introduction by Jack Barnes, photos, index.

James P. Cannon As We Knew Him

Biographies & Memoirs

Farrell Dobbs

Leaders & Notable People

How did capitalism arise? Why and when did this exploitative system exhaust its potential to advance civilization? Why revolutionary change is fundamental to human progress.
 Notes, index. Now with enlarged type.

Understanding History: Marxist Essays

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