Ebook: Dialectical Materialism: Its Laws, Categories, and Practice

Ira Gollobin's pathbreaking treatise, the product of over thirty years of research, provides an extraordinarily comprehensive and lucid exposition of dialectical materialism. An extensive discussion of the laws of dialectics is coupled with an elaboration of the dialectical categories, a vital yet seldom discussed sphere of dialectics. The author also looks deeply into another frequently ignored aspect of dialectical materialism - the laws and categories of the theory of knowledge (epistemology) - with a special focus on the vital contributions of Jean Piaget. Each of the laws and categories are presented historically: first the prescientific level of their cognition, followed by their scientific formulation, and concluding with their antiscientific variants. Throughout, illustrations are drawn from the natural sciences and from the culture of different societies, ancient and modern. His book is also unusual in being concerned not only with the meaning of dialectics but with how it can and should be used in practice.

Ira Gollobin has been a civil rights attorney since 1936, defending the foreign born, especially refugees, and the targets of witchhunts. From 1949 to 1966 he represented many organizations and individuals attacked by the House Un-American Activities Committee. He has also had a long-time interest and involvement in Far Eastern issues, and, as evidenced by this work, in dialectics.