2. Dialectical Materialism

Where materialism anchors our philosophical worldview in a scientific understanding of the relationship of matter to consciousness, materialist dialectics take us even further with a scientific theory of motion and development. Taken together, dialectical materialism allows us to correctly analyse the world around us, understand our past, resolve all sorts of problems in the present, […]

1. Materialism

To begin understanding the working-class worldview of Marxism-Leninism, we first need to discuss the philosophy on which it is based. After all, how can we seek to change the world without the tools we need to understand it? The result of centuries of investigation and ideological struggle have led communists to one rational philosophy above […]

Introduction

This is the online version of Back to Basics, a handbook written by members of the Young Communist League of Britain to act as an introduction to Marxist-Leninist theory and break down key concepts for new learners. It follows in the footsteps of many other texts and series of this nature, from Emile Burns’ classic […]