CONTENTS:
INTRODUCTION;
1. BOURGEOIS SCIENCE AND REDUCTIONISM;
2.DIALECTICS AND REDUCTIONISM; 3.MOTION AND CONTRADICTION; 4.HUMAN HISTORY AND NATURAL HISTORY;
CHAPTER 1. HISTORICAL MATERIALISM AS A SCIENCE;
1. THE EMERGENCE OF HISTORICAL MATERIALISM;
2. THE SUBJECT-MATTER OF HISTORICAL MATERIALISM;
3. THE OBJECTIVE CHARACTER OF THE LAWS OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT; 4.PEOPLE'S CONSCIOUS ACTIVITY AND ITS ROLE IN HISTORY;
CHAPTER 2. SOCIAL BEING AND SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS;
1.SOCIAL CONCIOUSNESS AS THE REFLECTION.OE SOIAL BEING;
2. THE CONCEPT OF INTELLECTUAL CILTURE;
3.SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY AND IDEOLOGY;
4. THE RELATIVE INDEPENDENCE OF SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNSS, CONNECTION AND MUTUAL INFLUENCE OF ITS FORMS;
5. THE CORRELATION BETWEEN SOCIAL AND INDIVIDUAL CONSCIOUSNESS;
CHAPTER 3. FORMS OF SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS AND THEIR SOCIAL FUNCTION;
1.POLITICAL AND LEGAL CONSCIOUSNESS;
2.MORAL CONSCIOUSNESS AND ETICS;
3. AESTHETIC CONSCIOUSNESS AND ART;
4. RELIGION;
5.SCIENCE;
6.PHILOSOPHY;
CHAPTER 4. MATERIAL PRODUCTION: THE BASIS OF SOCIAL LIFE;
1.SOCIETY AND NATURE, THEIR INTERACTION;
2 THE PRODUCTIV FORCELCR SOCIETY;
3.PRODUCTION RELATIONS;
4. DIALECTICS OR THE DIVELOPMEENT OF THE FORCES AND RELATIONS OF PRODUCTION;
CHAPTER 5. THE SOCIOECONOMIC FORMATION;
1. THE CONCEPT OF THE SOCIOECONOMIC FORMATION; 2.STRUCTURE OF THE SOCIOECONOMIC FORMATION: BASIS AND SUPERSTRUCTURE;
3.THE UNITY AND DIVERSITY OFTHE HISTORICAL PROCESS;
CHAFTER 6. SOCIAL REVOLUTION; 1.SOCIAL REVOLUTON AS THE LAW OF THE REPLACEMENT OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC FORMATIONS; 2.HISTORICAL TYPES OF SOCIAL REVOLUTIONS;
3. OBJECTIVE CONDITIONS AND THE SUBJECTIVE FACTOR OF REVOLUTION CHAPTER 7. SOCIAL CLASSES AND CLASS STRUGGLE;
1.THE CONCEPT OF SOCIAL CLASSES; 2. SOCIAL STRUICTURE AND HOW IT CHANGES;
3. CLASS INTERESTS AND CLASS STRUCGLE;
4.FORMS OF CLASSES STRUGGLE AND ORGANISATION;
CHAPTER 8. THE POLITICAL ORGANISATION OF SOCIETY;
1. TRANSITION FROM THE NON-POLTICAL (COLLECTIVE) ORGANISATION OF SOCIETY TO POLITICAL ORGANISATION;
2. DEVELOPMENT OF POLIICAL ORGANISATION AND ITS ROLE IN SOCIAL LIFE;
3. THE POLTICAL ORGANISATION OF POST-CAPITALIST SOCIETY;
CHAPTER 9. THE HISTORICAL FORMS OF HUMAN COMMUNITY;
1. THE CLANAND TRIBE AS HISTORICAL FORMS OF HUMAN COMMUNITY IN PRE-CLASS SOCIETY;
2. THE EMERGENCE OF CLASSES AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW FORMS OF HUMAN COMMUNITY;
3.NATIONAL RELATIONS UNDER CAPITALISM;
CHAPTER 10. THE MARXIST CONCEPTION OF HISTORY AND REVOLUTIONARY OPTIMISM;
1.A SCIENTIFIC GUIDE TO REVOLUTIONARY PRACTICE;
2 THE GENERAL LAW OF SOCIAL REVOLUTION;
3. HISTORICAL MATERIALISM AND THE PROLETARIAN-SOCIALIST REVOLUTION;
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