Marxist logic takes an unambiguous stand of the relations between the laws and forms of thought and the rest of reality. It affirms that what goes on in the minds of men, both in substance and structure, is inseparable from what happens in their social relations and the physical world and that the evolution of thought is part of the whole process of organic evolution.

A materialistic logic seems strange in its approach and content to anyone trained in the conceptions of a logic sealed up in the mind, supposedly divorced from roots in the world around us. Yet it is precisely this feature of Marxist logic, so alien and unacceptable to the prevailing currents of logical theory, which gives exceptional value, power, and usefulness to the dialectical method of materialist thought.

Description from the author's preface (very lightly adapted).

160 pages.

By George Novack

Pathfinder Press