Leftist Reading: The Worldview and Philosophical Methodology of Marxism-Leninism Part 1

Leftist Reading

Episode 136:

This week we’re starting a new book:
The Worldview and Philosophical Methodology of Marxism-Leninism
Written for the Vietnamese curriculum and translated by Luna Nguyen
You can purchase a copy and support translation of the further curriculum here:
https://www.banyanhouse.org/product/ebook-the-worldview-and-philosophical-methodology-of-marxism-leninism

[Part 1 - This Week]
Introduction to the Basic Principles of Marxism - 3:39
I. Brief History of Marxism-Leninism - 3:39
1. Marxism and the Three Constituent Parts - 3:39
Annotation 1: 5:57 - 7:31
2. Summary of the Birth and Development of Marxism-Leninism - 7:50
Annotation 2: 8:22 - 8:46
Annotation 3: 9:26 - 21:43
Annotation 4: 22:03 - 23:59
Annotation 5: 24:31 - 27:25

[Part 2 - 5]
I. Brief History of Marxism-Leninism

[Part 6]
II. Objects, Purposes and Requirements for Studying the Basic Principles of Marxism-Leninism

[Part 7 - 12?]
Part I: The Worldview and Philosophical Methodology of Marxism-Leninism
Chapter 1: Dialectical Materialism

[Part 13 - 25?]
Chapter 2: Materialist Dialectics

[Part 26 - 30?]
Chapter 3: Cognitive Theory of Dialectical Materialism

Footnotes:

1) 4:01
Karl Marx, 1818-1883 (German): Theorist, politician, dialectical materialist philosopher, political economist, founder of scientific socialism, leader of the international working class. ↵

2) 4:04
Friedrich Engels, 1820-1895 (German): Theorist, politician, dialectical materialist philosopher, leader of the international working class, co-founder of scientific socialism with Karl Marx. ↵

3) 4:10
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, 1870-1924 (Russian): Theorist, politician, dialectical materialist philosopher, defender and developer of Marxism in the era of imperialism, founder of the Communist Party and the government of the Soviet Union, leader of Russia and the international working class. ↵

4) 21:15
Material conditions include the natural environment, the means of production and the economic base of human society, objective social relations, and other externalities and systems which affect human life and human society. See Annotation 79. ↵