FOR SALE:

"FUNDAMENTALS OF MARXISM-LENINISM" (2nd Edition, Revised; 1963). 

Communist Theory and Practice Manual by Otto Wille Kuusinen (HARDCOVER).

PUBLISHER:

Foreign Languages Publication House (MOSCOW, 1st January 1963). 

Translated into English from Russian by Clemens Dutt.

BOOK TYPE: 

Hardback with Dust Jacket.

Vintage/Antiquarian/Academic/Textbook/University.

BOOK THEMES:

Politics, Political Ideologies, Socialism, Communism, Marxism,  Leninism, Capitalism, Economics, Philosophy 

NUMBER OF PAGES: ‎ 

735 

CONDITION: 

Used/Good.  

This book is a rare collectible for those interested in Politics, Philosophy, Economics, Socialism/Communism (Marxism-Leninism) and the history of the Soviet Union (USSR) and Russia.

The book comes with a dust jacket. This item is a must-have for book collectors interested in political ideologies and the rise of the USSR.

The book is in good (to very good) used condition with some cover spotting and dust jacket edge wear please see photographs).

BOOK SUMMARY:

Fundamentals of Marxism–Leninism is a book by a group of Soviet authors headed by Otto Wille Kuusinen. The work is considered one of the fundamental works on dialectical materialism and on Leninist communism. The book remains important in understanding the philosophy and politics of the Soviet Union; it consolidates the work of the two most important contributions to Marxist theory.

The first edition of The Fundamentals was published in 1960. A second revised edition (for sale here) was published in 1963. The text draws heavily on the works of Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin, with additional references to Friedrich Engels and Nikita Khrushchev.

SYNOPSIS:

Part One: The Philosophical Foundations of The Marxist-Leninist World Outlook

Part One of Fundamentals covers materialist and idealist philosophy, the use of dialectics within materialist philosophy and its opposition to metaphysics, and develops a theory of knowledge, truth, necessity, and human freedom.

The text argues that only a consistently materialist approach to philosophy can be truly scientific, since it requires the recognition of the objective existence of matter, as outside and independent of the human mind.

Part Two: The Materialist Conception of History

Part Two of the work covers Marxist theories of history, or historical materialism, by outlining the role of the mode of production, class, class struggles, the state and the individual in social development.

Part Three: Political Economy of Capitalism

Part Three summarizes Marx's Das Kapital and Lenin's theory of Imperialism.

Part Four: Theory and Tactics of the International Communist Movement

Part Four covers the Marxist–Leninist strategy of the international communist and working-class movement.

Part Five: Socialism and Communism

Part Five summarizes the main features of the socialist mode of production.