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In Hungary the verification of cadres made it easier to discover nests of provocateurs, agents of the enemy, who had sedulously, concealed their identity. Second, proper promotion of cadres. Promotion should not be something casual but one of the normal functions of the Party. It is bad when promotion is made exclusive...
First, absolute devotion to the cause of the working class, loyalty to the Party, tested in face of the class enemy - in battle, in prison, in court. Second, the closest possible contact with the masses. The comrades concerned must be wholly absorbed in the interests of the masses, feel the life pulse of the masses, kn...
Such worthy examples of proletarian heroism must be popularized, must be contrasted with the manifestations of faint-heartedness, philistinism, and every kind of rottenness and frailty in cur ranks and the ranks of the working class. These examples must be used most extensively, in educating the cadres of the workers' ...
But we need real truly Bolshevik organizers and leaders of the masses. And we need them badly this very day. It does not matter if such students cannot write good theses (though we need that very much, too), but they must know how to organize and lead undaunted by difficulties, capable of surmounting them. Revolutionar...
it faces the task above all of reducing to naught the disruptive machinations of the reactionary elements of Social Democracy. Many are the sacrifices that will be exacted under the hammer blows of bourgeois reaction and fascism. The revolutionary ship of the proletariat will have to steer its course through a multitud...
Georgi Dimitrov 1948 People of Bulgaria in the Struggle for Democracy and Socialism Written: By Georgi Dimitrov, February 1948; Source: For a Lasting Peace, for a People's Democracy! Vol. 2, no. 7; April 1, 1948; Transcribed: David Adams, March 2022. Abridged Report to the Second Congress of the Father Front of Bulgari...
This was a people's victory, the victory of workers, peasants, handicraftsmen, progressive intelligentsia and the patriotic units of the army, in a word of all the healthy forces of our people, united under the banner of the Fatherland Front. Power was wrested from the hands of the capitalist bourgeoisie, the exploitin...
As in the past, so too in the future the principle of our foreign policy will continue to be joint defence against possible aggression, to secure our national independence, territorial integrity and State sovereignty. We have devoted special attention to strengthening our mutual economic and cultural ties, to mutual as...
Today this army is an instrument of peace, freedom and independence of our people. Our arm and our valiant border guards protect the freedom of our native land. Bulgaria on the Road to Economic Progress After September 9 Bulgaria was faced with serious economic tasks. In the course of the war we had to satisfy the dema...
As a result of the agrarian reform 127,000 families received 1,252,000 decares of land and 7,863 families holdings. 381 publicly-owned economies, and institutions received 71,000 decares of land. An important new feature in agriculture is the producer cooperatives, of which there are 579 comprised of about 50,000 landh...
The Front must now renew its programme and define its new tasks in accordance with the vital interests of the people and with the further development of the country. In short, these tasks are as follows: First, to educate the popular masses in the spirit of the people's Constitution, to inculcate and strengthen the con...
Fascism certainly represented a totalitarian system, but as is known that system was imposed on the people from above, by means of terror and violence, and found expression in the unrestricted domination and dictatorship of a handful of big capitalists, financial magnates, businessmen and political adventurers over the...
Georgi Dimitrov Speech on the Chinese Question Delivered 23 July 1936 at the Meeting of the Secretariat of the ECCI First Published:1986 in 'Kommunisticheskii Internatsional i kitaiskaya revolutsiya' p. 263-266 Translated by: Tahir Asghar Source: revolutionarydemocracy.org Transcribed: revolutionarydemocracy.org HTML M...
It turned out that Chiang Kai-shek managed to organise three-fourths of the nation though he is no champion of unification of China against various military groups, against the division of China and the Chinese people. Tomorrow he is going to throw his forces against our Soviet regions under the slogan of unification o...
Obituary of G.M. Dimitrov Originally Published: World News and Views, No. 28, July 1949 Transcription: Marxist-Leninist Translations and Reprints HTML Markup: Brian Reid Public Domain: Marxists Internet Archive (2009). You may freely copy, distribute, display and perform this work; as well as make derivative and commer...
Georgi Dimitrov Fascism is War Written: July 18, 1936 Source: Dimitrov, Georgi Selected Works, volume 2, Sofia Press 1972, pp. 176-18 Transcription/HTML Markup: Mathias Bismo Slightly abridged Two years ago, in August 1935, the Seventh Congress of the Communist International, in analyzing the international Situation an...
They are preparing an onslaught on the USSR. They are making extensive use of the appeasement of the ruling circles of Britain, France and the United States. While making proposals for an agreement on the plundering of the small countries, Spain and China, they are striving in every possible way to win the good graces ...
It is impossible to wage a serious struggle for the preservation of world peace unless first and foremost all necessary steps are taken to establish a united front of the working class in each country and united action by the international workers' organizations. It is impossible to carry on a serious fight for peace u...
Georgi Dimitrov The People's Front Published: December 1935 Transcription: Zodiac HTML Markup: Mathias Bismo 1 The policy of the People's Front of struggle against fascism and war, proclaimed by the Seventh Congress of the Communist International, has aroused a mighty echo among the working masses of all countries. The...
We frequently observe the characteristic phenomenon that not a few Left Socialists, who have become disillusioned with the Social-Democratic policy of class collaboration with the bourgeoisie, and are moving away from reformism are frequently inclined to go to the other extreme and become the victims of sectarianism an...
The victory of the Spanish people is the interest of all who do not want to suffer fascist barbarism in their country. The victory of the Spanish people will be the victory of the whole of world democracy, the victory of progress and culture over fascist reaction, the victory of the peace the People's Front in France a...
The Spanish events provide a particularly vivid example in this respect, too. It is now clear to all that the fascists, and first and foremost the fascists of Germany and Italy who have raised the revolt, with the Spanish generals as their cat's-paws, counted upon the young Spanish Republican government not offering th...
The French proletariat, thanks to the joint action of the Communist and Socialist Parties and the policy of unswerving struggle on the basis of the People's Front against the fascist danger, caused fascism to be effectively repulsed and prevented the fascists from establishing their rule. This is the greatest victory o...
Of course, the responsibility for this policy, which is most detrimental to the interests of the world proletariat, lies with the Socialist leaders who are carrying it out. But it would be against the historical truth if we were to keep silent concerning that share of responsibility which falls upon all leaders and mem...
This is not easy. It requires work, persistence, the rallying together of all class-conscious workers. But without such work there is no use in talking of the unity of the workers.[V. I. Lenin, Collected Works, 20:319] These remarkable words of Lenin are particularly valuable and instructive for the working class of al...
Georgi Dimitrov The Budapest Resolution First Published: 1911 in Rabotnicheski Vestnik No. 60, October 3rd. Source: Georgi Dimitrov, Selected Works Sofia Press, Sofia, Volume 1, 1972, pp. 31-35 Transcription/HTML Markup: Mathias Bismo Online Version: Marxists Internet Archive (marxists.org) 2003 The International Trade...
The new American trade union centre was frankly and categorically told that, if it wanted to he in the International, it should join the old American centre5) (known as Gompers' American Federation of Labour), which has belonged to the International Trade Union Secresince the Paris Conference (1909).6) Why did not the ...
7) Jouhaux, L�on (born in 1878), leader of the French reformist trade union movement, one of the foremost leaders of the Amsterdam Trade Unions International. Prior to the First World War he was an anarchist anti-militarist, but then became an outspoken advocate of 'civil peace'. Lenin called him one of the most disgus...
Georgi Dimitrov Against Military Credits Shorthand notes 17th National Assembly November 19, 1914, pp. 483-486. Source: Georgi Dimitrov, Selected Works Sofia Press, Sofia, Volume 1, 1972, pp. 40-48 Transcription/HTML Markup: Mathias Bismo Online Version: Marxists Internet Archive (marxists.org) 2003 Gentlemen! During p...
Ninety per cent of these people are workers, poor peasants and farmers; they have most of them left their families without a single penny, and that while there is a social crisis; they have no stocks, no savings, they had no way of saving and, consequently, their families are now starving, suffering from the harsh wint...
This is a wicked shame! P. Genadiev (to the extreme left) : You are rousing the people to rebellion. D. Blagoev: You are rousing it. Minister P. Peshev: (to Mr. Dimitrov): Hold your tongue! G. Dimitrov: I should beg the Minister of Education to keep calm. Minister P. Peshev: Hold your tongue! G. Dimitrov: Sir! We know ...
Chairman. Let me finish. The Chairman: We have no time for nonsense and illattacks here. G. Dimitrov: I protest: The chairman has no right to say who is talking sense and who is talking nonsense. The Chairman: I shall demand that you leave the floor. D. Blagoev: How can you do this? It would be quite arbitrary! The Cha...
Georgi Dimitrov Third Anniversary of the Russian Revolution First Published: 1920 in Rabotnicheski Vestnik No. 100, November 3; Source: Georgi Dimitrov, Selected Works Sofia Press, Sofia, Volume 1, 1972, pp. 80-83; Transcription/HTML Markup: Mathias Bismo; Online Version: Marxists Internet Archive (marxists.org) 2003. ...
Georgi Dimitrov Five Years The Bulgarian Communist Party and the Communist International Source: The Communist International, 1924, No. 1 (New Series), pp. 191-192 Transcription/HTML Markup: Brian Reid Public Domain: Marxists Internet Archive (2008). You may freely copy, distribute, display and perform this work; as we...
Georgi Dimitrov The European War and the Labour Movement in the Balkans Source: The Communist International, 1924, No. 5 (New Series), pp. 93-103 Transcription/HTML Markup: Brian Reid Public Domain: Marxists Internet Archive (2009). You may freely copy, distribute, display and perform this work; as well as make derivat...
The chasm between Bulgaria and Turkey on the one hand, and Serbia, Greece and Rumania on the other hand was widened, and the antagonism between these countries reached unprecedented proportions. When Serbia, Greece and Rumania became the tools of the Entente, Bulgaria and Turkey were already the blind tools at the merc...
The losses inflicted on the country during this period of terrible devastation beggar description. In Serbia, with a population of 4,000,000 the number of those killed and who died from various diseases was 800,000, whilst 1,000,000 were wounded and 220,000 crippled. Of the 150,000 men and women who were driven into Au...
The Serbian bourgeoisie, which represents a nation forming only one-third of the total population of Yugo-Slavia, exercises a hegemony over the remaining two-thirds of the population, and carries on a violent policy for their denationalisation. The already complicated problem in the Balkans has now become more complica...
It never ceased to expose and to explain to the masses that both the “armed neutrality” of the Radoslavov Government and the Czar Ferdinand, was a blind tool of German imperialism; his “armed neutrality” was merely a cloak for the efforts which were made to draw Bulgaria into the war on the side of Germany and Austro-H...
Georgi Dimitrov The Small Nations First Published: 1917 in Rabotnicheski Vestnik No. 139, October 25. Source: Georgi Dimitrov, Selected Works Sofia Press, Sofia, Volume 1, 1972, pp. 53-55 Transcription/HTML Markup: Mathias Bismo Online Version: Marxists Internet Archive (marxists.org) 2003 The imperialists of the Enten...
Georgi Dimitrov The Right Road First Published: 1918 in Rabotnicheski Vestnik No. 273, May 1. Source: Georgi Dimitrov, Selected Works Sofia Press, Sofia, Volume 1, 1972, pp. 56-57 Transcription/HTML Markup: Mathias Bismo Online Version: Marxists Internet Archive (marxists.org) 2003 It has long been known and beyond dis...
Georgi Dimitrov 1948 The October Socialist Revolution Opened for Mankind the Road to Real Democracy and Socialism Written: By Georgi Dimitrov, 1948; Source: For a Lasting Peace, for a People's Democracy! Vol. 2, no. 21; November 1, 1948; Transcribed: David Adams, March 2022. The Great October Socialist Revolution opene...
Georgi Dimitrov The Need of Trade Unions in Bulgaria and Their Organization Source: Georgi Dimitrov, Selected Works Sofia Press, Sofia, Volume 1, 1972, pp. 7-22 Transcription/HTML Markup: Mathias Bismo Online Version: Marxists Internet Archive (marxists.org) 2003 I It is not for the first time that the question of the ...
There is already a strong movement among tobacco, textile and other factory workers. In order to oppose the strikers' movement, besides everything else, the bosses, irrespective of their party differences, formed a common bloc against the workers' strikes,3) against which we shall have to battle. On the other hand, the...
Its political activity is strongly circumscribed. It is up against a reactionary legislation. The reactionary artisan law pales before the much more reactionary laws against the strikes, against the association of the state workers and against the press. The ruling and the oppositionary bourgeoisie close their ranks an...
The predominant trend in the development of trade union movement everywhere is that the more it becomes a class-conscious movement and the more deeply it is pervaded by a socialist spirit, the more the organization of the trade unions proceeds along centralist lines. The historical experience of the trade union movemen...
Local groups will be formed in all towns which have at least seven members. In towns where there are at least four members, proxies will be appointed, through whom the members will get into contact with the central management. Where there are less than four members, they will enrol directly at the central management. T...
The question of membership fees also constltutes a serious obstacle. The formation of the unions will lead to a certain increase in the membership fees of provincial workers who now pay very low membership fees in the mixed trade union associations, as well as in most other trade union associations. This increase will ...
Georgi Dimitrov The Tasks of the Trade Unions First published:Communist Trade Union Library No. 3, February, 1920 Source:Dimitrov, Georgi, Selected Works Vol. 1, Sofia 1972 Transcription/HTML Markup: Mathias Bismo 1. The Trade Unions in the Past 2. The Trade Unions during the War 3. Results of the Trade Union Struggle ...
And when in the middle of the last century, after the founding of the First Socialist International 1) and the publication of the Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels, the proletariat began rapidly to organize itself as a class of its own and the trade union movement increasingly adopted Marx's view to the effect tha...
The old opportunism and auto-syndicalism in the trade union movement; the policy of confining their activity to reforms within the capitalist system; the professional narrow-mindedness, short-sightedness and corruption of the trade union bureaucracy; the education of the workers' masses in the trade unions in a spirit ...
Surveying today the whole history of the struggle of the trade unions, we can see that its only essential and lasting result consists in that the workers have succeeded in resisting the utter exhaustion of their vital forces and in safeguarding themselves against utter physical and moral degeneration to which capitalis...
Anarchy in economic life, disorganization in production accompanied by mass unemployment and misery are still further heightened by the civil war, whereby the bourgeoisie is trying in vain. to retain its shaken supremacy. There are no longer any prospects for a return to prewar conditions. The war itself accelerated an...
Still less is it possible today, when class contradictions have reached their peak, when the bourgeoisie and the proletariat are pitted against each other as class against class, when the period of the international proletarian revolution has been ushered in, to speak about trade union neutrality. For the trade unions ...
We are still faced with many hard tests. The great cause to the service of which we have voluntarily dedicated ourselves, however, deserves the utmost efforts and sacrifices on our part. Let us, therefore, make them without any hesitation, profoundly convinced of the inevitable triumph of the international proletarian ...
Georgi Dimitrov's Youth Against Facism Delivered: September 25, 1935 Transcribed: Zodiac HTML Markup: Brian Baggins Speech at the Opening of the Sixth Congress of the Young Communist International COMRADES, I am bringing you warm greetings from the Executive Committee of the Communist International. No dangers that bes...
You cannot stand aside from the movement in favor of unity which is growing and strengthening in the ranks of the working class. You do not have to wait like the Socialist Youth International for permission "from above" before you can support the united front movement and the union of the toiling youth in one organizat...
Georgi Dimitrov versus Göbbels Letters, writings and courtroom hearings Written: Between March 1933 and February 1934 Source: Georgi Dimitrov Selected Works, Volume 1, pp. 313 - 399 First Published: Dimitrov Works vol. 9, Sofia 1960 Online Version: Marxists Internet Archive (marxists.org) 2001 Transcription/Markup: Mat...
Georgi Dimitrov The Significance of the Second Balkan Conference First Published: 1915 in Rabotnicheski Vestnik No. 77, July 12. Source: Georgi Dimitrov, Selected Works Sofia Press, Sofia, Volume 1, 1972, pp. 49-52 Transcription/HTML Markup: Mathias Bismo Online Version: Marxists Internet Archive (marxists.org) 2003 Sp...
It is only thus that we shall represent a worthy section of the Balkan International. Marching shoulder to shoulder with our brothers from Rumania, Serbia and Greece, we shall bring closer the day of triumph of the Balkan Federative Republic which will mark a sure stage towards the great proletarian social revolution!....
Georgi Dimitrov Concluding Speech before the 5th Congress of the BCP Delivered: December 25, 1948 after the Conclusion of the Discussions of the Report Source: Georgi Dimitrov, Selected Works Sofia Press, Sofia, Volume 3, 1972, pp. 348-353 Transcription/HTML Markup: Mathias Bismo Online Version: Marxists Internet Archi...
We must ruthlessly flay every nepotism when deciding on Party or state matters. The interests of the Party of the working class, of the people, must stand above all such petty bourgeois considerations and prejudices. Comrades, In connexion with the discussions and some questions addressed to me in writing, permit me to...
Georgi Dimitrov Lenin to the Workers in Europe and America First Published: Sofia, May 1919. Source: Georgi Dimitrov, Selected Works Sofia Press, Sofia, Volume 1, 1972, pp. 59-62. Transcription/HTML Markup: Mathias Bismo Online Version: Marxists Internet Archive (marxists.org) 2003 Preface to the Pamphlet "Two open let...
Georgi Dimitrov Towards Unity! First Published: 1914 in Rabotnicheski Vestnik No. 279, April 9. Source: Georgi Dimitrov, Selected Works Sofia Press, Sofia, Volume 1, 1972, pp. 36-39 Transcription/HTML Markup: Mathias Bismo Online Version: Marxists Internet Archive (marxists.org) 2003 The visit to Sofia during the Easte...
The trouble is that the RightSocialist Party is not in any sense of the word a SoParty, that a wide and unbridgeable gap separates it from the Workers' Social-democratic Party and that, this being so, if a trade union merger were to be effected on a basis of neutrality, the thus unified trade union movement would becom...
General Boulanger 1891 Suicide of General Boulanger Source: Le Petit Journal, October 1, 1891; Translated: for marxists.org by Mitchell Abidor. Ixelles, September 30, 1:15 pm General Boulanger has just killed himself at the cemetery of Ixelles, near the grave of Mme de Bonnemain, who was his companion in exile and whos...
Boulangisme 1889 Profession of Faith of General Boulanger Source: Alexandre Z�va�s, Histoire de la III�me R�publique. �ditions Georges Anquetil Paris, 1926; Translated: for marxists.org by Mitchell Abidor; CopyLeft: Creative Commons (Attribute & ShareAlike) marxists.org 2009. Voters of the Seine: The parliamentarians w...
General Boulanger 1888 The Program of General Boulanger First published: as broadsheet, April 1888; Translated: from the original broadsheet by Mitchell Abidor. The hypocritical tremblers who have oppressed us for too long try their best to claim that General Boulanger has no program, that they don’t know what he wants...
BOULANGER IS THE PEOPLE! The people, that is, the French! The people who suffer! The people who are hungry! He suffers to see the fatherland ceaselessly debased and humiliated; he suffers to see our beautiful country hindered in its march towards progress! He is hungry for justice, hungry for work, hungry for honor and...
The Boulangist Movement 1888 General Boulanger, Deputy of the Nord, Leader of the National party By Louis de Jonqui�res Source: Le General Boulanger, depute du Nord Chef du Parti National. Paris, [n.d. 1888] [n.p.]; Translated: for marxists.org by Mitchell Abidor; CopyLeft: Creative Commons (Attribute & ShareAlike) mar...
Sub-Lieutenant Boulanger comported himself bravely, and he has never since forgotten those horrible nocturnal climbs that the vigilance of the kabyles made so fearsome for our soldiers. When Marshal Randon left his command he addressed warm congratulations in his order of the day to the First Regiment of Algerian Tirai...
Blaine, Secretary of State, who was always one of Bismarck’s most complacent flatterers, had hoisted on an official ship an immense German flag that completely hid our tricolor flag. This amiable Yankee wanted at any cost to cross the two flags, on the pretext that at the time of the war of independence the French army...
At the exit an Italian named Tessi, hidden behind a door, threw himself on a lieutenant of the Chasseurs and in a cowardly way, before the latter knew what was happening, punched him in the face with his two fists. Our officer was going to kill him when the Zouaves, coming from their posts, took away the aggressor. “Th...
Freycinet, forced to take rigorous measures against families having ruled in France, a decree appeared June 22, 1886 that forbade heads of these families and their direct heirs in the order of primogeniture the territory of the republic, and authorized the government to apply this measure to other members of these fami...
The day before, the minster of War had been promoted Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor. November 4, 1886, he went to preside at la Bossi�re, near Rambouillet, at the inauguration of an orphanage founded by Commandant Henriot to receive the orphans of non-commissioned officers and soldiers. In a speech worthy of that...
But a factor more powerful than ministers, more powerful than the senate and the Chamber suddenly joined in: the country, which demands something other than ministerial crises and financial scandals; the country, increasingly disgusted with the sterile parliamentarianism that ruins and dishonors it and which so loudly ...
The Boulangist Movement 1889 Letter of General Boulanger to his Voters Source: L’Intransigeant, January 31, 1889; Translated: for marxists.org by Mitchell Abidor. Translator’s note: In the aftermath of his crushing victory on January 27, and as his seizing of power was still anxiously hoped for by his followers, Boulan...
The Boulangist Movement 1888 Boulangism and the Young by Jules Tellier Source: Le Parti National, May 29, 1888; Translated: by Mitchell Abidor; CopyLeft: Creative Commons (Attribute & ShareAlike) marxists.org 2009. M. Maurice Barr�s is a very talented novelist and a journalist of much wit. Among the young journalists o...
Jules Case? If this is the case, let him reveal it to us and we’ll see. I know that the general has on his side a novelist, M. Rochefort and two poets, Messrs. Clovis Hugues and Paul D�roul�de. And surely the verses of Messrs. D�roul�de and Hugues have their interest. We can find them very distressing or very amusing i...
The Boulangist Movement 1889 To the People, My Sole Judge Translated: from the original broadsheet by Mitchell Abidor. I address myself to all honest men and not to the judges of the high court, whose competence and impartiality I don’t recognize. If this special tribunal, whose decision all of France knows in advance,...
Quesnay de Beuarepaire is speaking, without realizing that In doing so he demonstrates what the deposition of this swindler, purchased by M. Constans, is worth? Yes, it appears certain that at that time Buret was someone’s agent, but it was M. Constans and not me. Was it not in fact M. Constans who confided to this Bur...
that of the principal interested party, M. Dupuy, the epaulette merchant who declared in the clearest fashion that I was never mixed up in that crooked affair; and the deposition of a former minister, of a deputy, the honorable M. Granet, who affirms that the day that he spoke to me of the “M. Dupuy Affair” I answered ...
de Beaurepaire, when you say in regard to the reserve funds that “Since 1872 the ministers had made it their duty to add to them, and never to withdraw from them.” In order to confound you, it is enough that I produce since 1872 the status of these reserve funds, which incidentally were called until 1875 “diverse funds...
If I only listened to my interest I would quote you a hundred different facts that would confound you, but which my patriotism obliges me to remain silent about. Nevertheless, there is one that I must speak of, despite its seriousness, because it suffices to prove that my collaborators and I did our duty, and the count...
Paris, May 31,1887 Al. de Mondion The person who signed it had been my agent; he had rendered great service and it is my duty to remain silent, unless you force me to speak of them. I owed him this sum, France owed it to him, and I paid it. We will note that it exceeds by 2,000 francs that which was given me by M. Reic...
General Ferron responded that there was no reason for this. What is left of your indictment, Monsieur Procurator General? The proof that you odiously and knowingly slandered me. But there is in your brief something even more infamous than your calumnies. You say: “These misappropriations are only brought up here for in...
The Lebel Rifle There is something in you brief that is even lower still. There remains a question that you haven’t dared approach, an ill-defined accusation that you haven’t dared put in your indictment, but that I will address because I find it implicitly contained in the portion of the High Court dossier that I have...
The Boulangist Movement 1888 The Boulanger Balance Sheet First published: 1888; Translated: from the original broadsheet by Mitchell Abidor. To Republican Voters Publication of the Society of the Rights of man and the Citizen M. Lissagaray, General Secretary, 1888 Declaration Belonging to diverse fractions of the great...
A great number of independent deputies also adhered to this manifesto. In turn, the socialist group in the Chamber took position in these terms: Declaration The undersigned deputies, members of the socialist group, declare that they find it profoundly regrettable that the noise around the name of a soldier should come ...
These two protests are followed by more than three hundred signatures of students from the schools of Medicine, Pharmacy, Mines, Letters, and Sciences, etc.. In order to respond to the brutality of the Boulangist demonstrators, and to be ready for any eventuality, the students soon afterwards named an organization comm...
After a violent discussion raised by a few Boulangists, the following order of the day was voted by an immense majority (five hands alone were raised for the nays.) The Freemasons of the Orient of Paris gathered in congress in Paris at the Cirque d’Hiver June 3, 1888): Considering that Freemasonry cannot, without faili...
V. A. Lektorsky The Dialectic of Subject and Object and some Problems of the Methodology of Science The philosophy of pre-Marxist materialism evolved a definite understanding of the cognitive process, an understanding which was accepted by the natural sciences and prevailed in the minds of scientists virtually right up...
Thus it is a necessary condition of the objectivity of knowledge that we should be aware of the object characteristics that have, as it were, "grown together" with the subject either because they are immediately connected with the subject's physical body or, as Marx put it, because they express his "inorganic body", i....
One has the impression that Born is inclined to identify the sum-total of invariants with the reality reproduced in knowledge, and in this connection regards "projections" as something unreal, existing only in relation to physics with its measuring instruments. But the point is that the instruments with which the physi...
Since any operation depends for its content on the object upon which it is directed, operations with the same external form may have quite different cognitive content. It is the structure of the actual object of cognition which makes us unite different experimental and theoretical operations as operations referring to ...
Of great importance in this context is Lenin's idea that the Marxist theory of knowledge and dialectics should be built up from such fields of knowledge as the history of philosophy, the history of knowledge in general, the history of the specialised sciences, the history of the mental development of the child, and of ...
It is beyond the scope of this article to consider in detail the methodological problems connected with the subject's cognition and such specific forms of his life activity as the consciousness, mentality and the ideal. We can only refer to the fruitful work being done in contemporary psychology on the problem of the i...
V A Lektorsky 1980 Subject Object Cognition Contents Preface to the English Edition Introduction Part One: Conceptions of Cognitive Relation in the Non-Marxist Epistemological Theories Chapter 1. Interpretation of Cognition as Interaction of Two Natural Systems 1. Interpretation of Knowledge as the Result of a Causal E...
Henri LAURENT IN THE STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE Source: Patrice Lumumba: Fighter for Africa’s Freedom, Moscow, Progress Publishers, 1961, pp 90-93. Written: by Henri LAURENT, Belgian journalist; Transcribed: by Thomas Schmidt. His name appeared on the political horizon in the days when the rattle of tommy-guns was heard...
Lev VOLODIN LAST DAYS OF FREEDOM Source: Patrice Lumumba: Fighter for Africa’s Freedom, Moscow, Progress Publishers, 1961, pp 104-110. Written: by Lev VOLODIN, Soviet journalist; Transcribed: by Thomas Schmidt. The rain poured all that evening, and from our verandah we gazed at the turbid curtain of water that hid the ...