Leftist Reading: The Worldview and Philosophical Methodology of Marxism-Leninism Part 14

Leftist Reading

Episode 149:

This week we’re continuing with:
The Worldview and Philosophical Methodology of Marxism-Leninism
Written for the Vietnamese curriculum and translated by Luna Nguyen
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[Part 1 - 5]
Introduction to the Basic Principles of Marxism

[Part 6 - 10]
Part I: The Worldview and Philosophical Methodology of Marxism-Leninism
Chapter 1: Dialectical Materialism

[Part 11 - 13]
Chapter 2: Materialist Dialectics
I. Dialectics and Materialist Dialectics
II. Basic Principles of Marxist Dialectics

[Part 14 - This Week]
Chapter 2: Materialist Dialectics
III. Basic Pairs of Categories of Materialist Dialectics - 0:28
Annotation 126: 0:54 - 1:27
Annotation 127: 3:21 - 4:02
Annotation 128: 4:30 - 5:53
1. Private and Common
a. Categories of Private and Common - 5:54
Annotation 129: 6:40 - 21:24
b. Dialectical Relationship Between Private and Common - 21:25
Annotation 130: 21:47 - 22:30
Annotation 131: 22:49 - 23:22
Annotation 132: 23:46 - 25:14
c. Meaning of the Methodology - 26:28
Annotation 133: 27:00 - 28:01
Annotation 134: 28:21 - 33:53
Annotation 135: 34:06 - 35:06

[Part 15 - 25?]
Chapter 2: Materialist Dialectics

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

Figures:

Figure 1 - 3:25
The categories of specific sciences are limited to the scope of study, while the categories of materialist dialectics encompass all things, phenomena, and ideas.

Figure 2 - 6:34

Figure 3 - 8:25
All private subjects have attributes in common with other private subjects.

Figure 4 - 9:15
All private subjects have attributes in common with other private subjects.

Figure 5 - 10:04
All things, phenomena, and ideas contain the unique, the private, and the common.

Figure 6 - 12:27
“Unique” things, phenomena, and ideas can become “common” through development processes (and vice-versa).

Figure 7 - 27:23
Dialectical analysis of private and common characteristics involves observing private subjects to determine common attributes and considering common attributes to gain insights about private subjects.

Footnotes:

1) 26:20
On the Question of Dialectics, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, 1915.