Marxism and Modern Thought

N. I. Bukharin, A. M. Deborin, Y. M. Uranovsky, S. I. Vavilov, V. L. Komarov, & A. I. Tiumeniev

Translated by Ralph Fox

CONTENTS	PAGE
Preface	vii

Marx’s Teaching and its Historical Importance : N. I. Bukharin	1
I. The Philosophical Synthesis of Marx	11
II. The Theory of Historical Materialism	29
III. The Theory of Capitalism	46
IV. The Theory of Proletarian Dictatorship and Scientific Communism	65

Karl Marx and the Present : A. M. Deborin	91
I. On the Forecasts of Marx and Engels	91
II. The Contemporary Crisis of Capitalism and the Ideology of Fascism	98
III. Fascism and Social-Fascism	123

Marxism and Natural Science : Y. M. Uranovsky	136

The Old and the New Physics : S. I. Vavilov	175
I. On Certain Tasks of the History of Science	175
II. Classical Physics and the New Physics	180
III. Experiment and the Theoretical Methods of the New Physics	184

Marx and Engels on Biology : V. L. Komarov	190
I. Remarks on Darwin in the Marx-Engels Correspondence	192
II. Engels on Darwin in The Dialectic of Nature	198
III. Engels on Darwin in Anti-Dühring	216
IV. Does the Darwinian Theory have any Meaning from the Point of View of the Social Sciences?	223
V. The Influence of the Ideas of Marx and Engels on the Further Development of Evolutionary Doctrine	227

Marxism and Bourgeois Historical Science : A. I. Tiumeniev	235
I. Marxism-Leninism and Bourgeois Historical Science	235
II. The Natural-Scientific Tendency and Methods of Science in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries	239
III. Bourgeois Historical Science and the Great French Revolution	244
IV. The Turn of Bourgeois Historical Science towards Reaction. Positivism	250
V. The Historical School in Germany : Ranke, Schmoller, Rickertianism	264
VI. The Crisis of Bourgeois Ideology and Science in the Epoch of Imperialism	273
VII. The Dominance of Scholasticism in the Fascist Countries. Historical Science in Modern Germany and Italy	281
VIII. The Crisis in the Positivist Tendency	289
IX. The Crisis of the Economic Historical Tendency	304
X. Conclusions	318

Notes	321
Index	337

SOURCE: Marxism and Modern Thought, by N. I. Bukharin, A. M. Deborin, Y. M. Uranovsky, S. I. Vavilov, V. L. Komarov, & A. I. Tiumeniev; translated by Ralph Fox. New York: Harcourt, Brace; London, G. Routledge & Sons, Ltd., 1935. viii, 342 pp. Contents, v-vi.

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