Materialism and Empirio-criticism

Book Review

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin's book «Materialism and Empirio-criticism» is an important philosophical work in which the author critiques the philosophical views of empiriocriticism and defends the positions of dialectical materialism. Lenin thoroughly analyzes the works of philosophers such as Ernst Mach and Richard Avenarius, showing how their ideas contradict a materialist understanding of the world. Critics note that Lenin in his book strives to prove that empiriocriticism, despite its claims to scientificity, actually leads to subjective idealism. Lenin convincingly argues that matter is an objective reality existing independently of human consciousness. The book also addresses questions of epistemology, the nature of perception, and the role of science in understanding the world. Critics emphasize that «Materialism and Empirio-criticism» played a significant role in the development of Marxist philosophy and was an important stage in the struggle against idealistic trends in early 20th-century philosophy. Lenin's work received both positive and negative reviews, but its influence on philosophical thought and political ideology in the 20th century is hard to overestimate.