The Open Philosophy and The Open Society. A Reply to Dr. Karl Popper's Refutations of Marxism

"This book really puts Popper in his place (as a shill for capitalism). This book should be read much more than it is. Too bad for me I didn't have it years ago when I studied Popper." —Mario Petrilli, Amazon "This books answers about every common objection to Marxism I have heard. I wish I had discovered it years ago." — Corey, Amazon Maurice Campbell Cornforth was a British Marxist philosopher. **With complete table of contents.** COVER BY THE SAME AUTHOR TITLE PAGE COPYRIGHT FOREWORD NOTE CONTENTS PART ONE: TOWARDS AN OPEN PHILOSOPHY 1: THE SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER OF MARXISM 1. MARXISM IN WONDERLAND 2. IS MARXISM FALSIHABLE? 3. FUNDAMENTALS OF MARXIST SOCIAL THEORY 4. DOES MARXISM ALLOW LOGICAL CONTRADICTIONS? 5. DIALECTICAL MATERIALISM AND SCIENTIFIC METHOD 2: THE MATERIALIST APPROACH 1. MATERIALISM VERSUS IDEALISM 2. THE CASE AGAINST IDEALISM 3. THE CASE FOR MATERIALISM 3: THE MEANING OF DIALECTICS 1. DIALECTICS VERSUS METAPHYSICS 2. MATERIALIST DIALECTICS 3. THE CONCRETE ANALYSIS OF CONCRETE CONDITIONS 4. THE DIALECTICAL MATERIALIST THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE 5. REINFORCED DOGMATISM REINFORCED 4: THE NECESSITY OF DIALECTICS 1. THE SCIENCE OF INTERCONNECTIONS 2. THE UNITY OF OPPOSITES 3. THE TEST OF DIALECTICAL MATERIALISM 4. THE PHILOSOPHY OF IDENTITY PART TWO: PREMISES FOR POLITICS 1: HISTORICISM AND HISTORICAL PREDICTION 1. THE DOGMATISM OF mSTORICISM 2. MEN MAKE THEIR OWN fflSTORY 3. fflSTORICAL PREDICTION 4. PREDICTION, PROBABILITY AND INTENT 5. NECESSITY AND INEVITABILITY 6. SCIENCE AND UTOPIA 2: SCIENCE APPLIED TO POLITICS 1. PROBLEMS OF SOCIAL SCLENCE 2. SOCIAL SCIENCE AND POLITICS 3. CONDUCT AND AIMS OF MARXIST POLITICAL PARTIES 3: THE CRITIQUE OF CAPITALISM 1. HAS CAPITALISM DISAPPEARED? 2. THE LABOUR THEORY OF VALUE 3 . SURPLUS VALUE AND EXPLOITATION OF WAGE-LABOUR 4. THE GENERAL LAW OF CAPITALIST ACCUMULATION 4: SOCIAL REVOLUTION AND SOCIAL ENGINEERING 1. THE SOCIALIST REVOLUTION 2. SOCIAL ENGINEERING 3. REFORM AND REVOLUTION 5: THE INSTITUTION OF POLITICAL POWER 1. INSTITUTIONS 2. INSTITUTIONS AND CLASSES 3. CLASSES AND POLITICAL POWER 4. THE EXECUTIVE POWER OF THE STATE 6: THE BATTLE OF DEMOCRACY 1. DEFINITION OF DEMOCRACY 2. PUBLIC CONTROL AND CLASS CONTROL 3. POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC POWER 4. SOCIALIST DEMOCRACY PART THREE: TOWARDS AN OPEN SOCIETY 1: EQUALITY 1. EQUALITY OF RIGHTS 2. EQUALTY AND THE ABOLITION OF CLASSES 2: FREEDOM 1. FREEDOM AND RESTRICTION OF FREEDOM 2. FREEDOM, RIGHTS AND SECURITY 3. FREEDOM FROM EXPLOITATION 4. FREEDOM AND NECESSITY 5. THE MEANS AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM 3: THE OPEN SOCIETY 1. THE CLOSED AND THE OPEN SOCIETY 2. THE WAY INTO THE OPEN SOCIETY 3. RESPONSIBILITY, INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE 4: COMMUNISM 1. THE RATIONALITY AND PRACTICALITY OF COMMUNISM 2. SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS OF MODERN TECHNIQUES 3. THE COMMUNIST PROGRAMME 5: THE TRANSITION TO COMMUNISM 1. DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST PLANNING 2. FROM SOCIALISM TO COMMUNISM 6: THE OPEN SOCIETY AND ITS ENEMIES 1. COMMUNISM AND ANTI-COMMUNISM 2. AGAINST VIOLENCE, FOR JUST LAWS, FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS 3. THE RATIONALIST BELIEF IN REASON INDEX BACK COVER