Lenin insisted, “The philosophy of Marxism is materialism.” He stated that materialism “has proved to be the only philosophy that is consistent, true to all the teachings of natural science ...

Lenin would have said there was no turning ... He read other things besides revolutionary philosophy and blue books. Particularly in the last days of Swiss exile, with the world at war all around ...

The Bolshevik tendency emerged out of the struggle led politically by Lenin (and, in the sphere of philosophy, by Plekhanov) against revisionist and opportunist tendencies within the Russian ...