Menshevizing idealism, also known as menshevistic idealism (Russian: меньшевиствующий идеализм), is a term that was widely used in Soviet Marxist literature and referred to the errors committed in philosophy by Abram Deborin’s group. The term was coined by Joseph Stalin in 1930. According to Soviet philosophers, Menshevistic idealism tried to identify Marxist dialectics with Hegel’s, divorced theory from practice, and underestimated the Leninist stage in the development of philosophy.
References
- Somerville, John (May 1946). "Basic Trends in Soviet Philosophy". The Philosophical Review. 55 (3): 258. doi:10.2307/2181667. JSTOR 2181667. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
- Michaelson, Greg (3 December 2020). Menshevising Idealism: or why the Soviet Union didn't develop the first computers. Oxford Communist Corresponding Society.
- A Dictionary of Philosophy by Mark Rosenthal and Pavel Yudin (Progress Publishers, 1967).
Further reading
- (in Russian) Коршунов Н. Б. Так называемый «меньшевиствующий идеализм» в аспекте философских дискуссий начала 30-х годов в СССР. Диссертация на соискание учёной степени кандидата философских наук : 09.00.03. — Москва, 2003. — 248 с.