Horkheimer on Lenin's "Empiriocriticism"
Max Horkheimer's 1928--29 reaction to Lenin's epistemological polemic _Materialism and Empiriocriticism_
This is the first translation from the German-language Platypus Review to appear in the English edition. The original can be found at the above link.
Material Basis AMONGST HIS MANUSCRIPTS Max Horkheimer left behind an essay, written in 1928 but unpublished during his lifetime, whose subject is Lenin’s important work Materialism and Empiriocriticism, which had appeared in German translation the year before. The publication of Horkheimer’s response to Lenin was eventually undertaken by Horkheimer’s pupil and successor, Alfred Schmidt in 1985.
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