The following study guide was originally published by The Marxist-Leninist news blog:
“The Marxist philosophy of dialectical materialism has two outstanding characteristics. One is its class nature: it openly avows that dialectical materialism is in the service of the proletariat. The other is its practicality: it emphasizes the dependence of theory on practice, emphasizes that theory is based on practice and in turn serves practice.” – Mao Zedong, “On Practice”
Basic and Essential readings
- Dialectical and Historical Materialism by J. V. Stalin
- On Practice by Mao Zedong
- On Contradiction by Mao Zedong
Supplemental readings
- Anti-Dühring (Part I: Philosophy) by Frederick Engels
- The Development of the Monist View of History by Georgi Plekhanov
- The Attitude of the Workers’ Party to Religion by V. I. Lenin
- Socialism and Religion by V. I. Lenin
- On the Significance of Militant Materialism by V. I. Lenin
- Materialism and Empirio-Criticism by V. I. Lenin
- On the Question of Dialectics by V. I. Lenin
- Anarchism or Socialism? by J. V. Stalin
- Reform Our Study by Mao Zedong
- Rectify the Party’s Style of Work by Mao Zedong
- Dialectical Materialism by Mao Zedong
- Talk on Questions of Philosophy by Mao Zedong
- On Marxism by Louis Althusser
- Lenin and Philosophy by Louis Althusser
