empiriomonism

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Alexander Bogdanov's philosophy of cognition and being. Based on the neutral monist philosophy of Ernst Mach and Richard Avenarius (empiriocriticism), empiriomonism was an attempt to provide a modern, scientific proof of the principles of Marxism, in general, and of historical materialism in particular.

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nounempiriomonism (uncountable)
  1. historicaluncountableAlexander Bogdanov's philosophy of cognition and being. Based on the neutral monist philosophy of Ernst Mach and Richard Avenarius (empiriocriticism), empiriomonism was an attempt to provide a modern, scientific proof of the principles of Marxism, in general, and of historical materialism in particular.

    This ideology, it need hardly be said, would be that of empiriomonism, as the most radical thought-form eschewing the traditional fetishes of metaphysics.

    1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 443
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