CONTENTS B. A. Chagin G. V. Plekhanov's Defence and Substantiation of Dialectical and Historical Materialism in the Struggle Against Revisionism (Introduction) SELECTED PHILOSOPHICAL WORKS Volume II Essays on the History of Materialism Preface I. Holbach II. Helvetius III. Marx A Few Words in Defence of Economic Materialism Some Remarks on History On the Materialist Understanding of History On the "Economic Factor" (Final Version) On the Question of the Individual's Role in History On the Alleged Crisis in Marxism Bernstein and Materialism What Should We Thank Him For? Cant Against Kant or Herr Bernstein's Will and Testament Conrad Schmidt Versus Karl Marx and Frederick Engels Materialism or Kantianism Materialism Yet Again Reply to an International Questionnaire from the Newspaper La Petite Republique Socialiste The Philosophical and Social Views of Karl Marx The Initial Phases of the Theory of the Class Struggle A Critique of Our Critics Part I. Mr. P. Struve in the Role of Critic of the Marxist Theory of Social Development Article One Article Two Article Three The Materialist Understanding of History Lecture One (March8, 1901) Lecture Two (March 15, 1901) Lecture Three (March 23,1901) Lecture Four On a Book by Masaryk This Thunder Is Not from a Storm Cloud On Croce's Book Karl Marx Notes Name Index Subject Index