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

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

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

Pathfinder Press (NY)

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.

Americas Revolutionary Heritage

Americas

Pathfinder Pr

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

Novack defends scientific socialism—the generalization of the historic line of march of the working class. In articles from “In Defense of Engels” to “Is Nature Dialectical?” Novack answers those who throughout the twentieth century sought to provide a “philosophical” veneer for the anti-working-class course of Stalinist and social democratic misleaderships around the world.Photo, Bibliography of Marxist Philosophy, notes, glossary, index

Polemics in Marxist Philosophy

Because without understanding how human society, since our remotest ancestors, has been created through social labor, working people remain prisoners of the capitalist epoch in which we live.Without knowing how our labor transforms nature, how it’s the motor force along humanity’s ongoing road, we can’t see beyond the class exploitation that warps every aspect of our social relations, ideas, and values.The dictatorship of capital hasn’t always existed. It’s a few hundred years old. Like slavery and serfdom before it, capitalist rule had a beginning. . . and will have an end.Only the revolutionary conquest of state power by the working class, conscious of our class position and conditions of emancipation, can open the door to a future. One based not on dog-eat-dog capitalist exploitation, degradation of nature, subjugation of women, racism, and war.A world built on human solidarity. A socialist world.That’s what a long view of history helps us understand.

Labor, Nature, and the Evolution of Humanity: The Long View of History

Mary-Alice Waters

Karl, Marx

Frederick, Engels

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