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Lenin wrote in 1908, “The essence of the crisis in modern physics consists in the break-down of the old laws and basic principles, in the rejection of an objective reality existing outside the mind, that is, in the replacement of materialism by idealism and agnosticism.
TN: Original from Archive of the Russian Academy of Science. Ph. 1515, Op. 2. D.17. L. 1-8. Published by S. N. Korsakov, Korsakov (2019). Reproduced here with permission. Korsakov’s footnotes are denoted by K or K/BH if origin unknown.
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Notes
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TN: Materialism and Empirio-criticism, Lenin (1977), p. 258.
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K: One word illegible.
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K/BH: William Thomson, First Baron Kelvin, 1824–1907, a British physicist, the President of London Royal Society in 1890–1895.
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TN: Reference not found.
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TN: K. Marx, Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, 1859, Marx and Engels (1966), pp. 503–4.
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TN: F. Engels, Dialectics of Nature, Engels (1988), p. 362.
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TN: Philosophical Notebooks, Lenin (1976), p. 358.
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TN: ibid.
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K/BH: Joseph John Thomson, (1856–1940), a British physicist, the President of the London Royal Society in 1915–1920, a Nobel Prize winner. TN: This may refer to Thomson’s “ether mass” theory—see Chap. 3, p. 40, n. 37.
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TN: Philosophical Notebooks, Lenin (1976), p. 222.
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TN: The reference to Marx is apparently mistaken, but in Anti-Duhring, Engels (1988), p .131, Engels writes: “Dialectics, however, is nothing more than the science of the general laws of motion and development of nature, human society and thought.”.
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Hessen, B. (2021). Materialist Dialectics and Modern Physics. Report Abstracts. The First All-Union Congress of Physicists, Odessa, August 19, 1930. In: Talbot, C., Pattison, O. (eds) Boris Hessen: Physics and Philosophy in the Soviet Union, 1927–1931. History of Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70045-4_12
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