Name Mark Mitin | ||
Died January 15, 1987, Moscow, Russia | ||
Mark Borisovich Mitin ( Russian Марк Борисович Митин ) (June 22 jul. / 5 July 1901 - 15 January 1987 ) was a Soviet Marxist-Leninist philosopher and university lecturer, Professor of Philosophy Faculty of Moscow State University (1964-1968, 1978-1985 ). He was interested primarily dialectical and historical materialism, the philosophy of history and criticism of "bourgeois" philosophy .
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Biography
He came from a working-class family. In the years 1925-1929 he studied philosophy at the Institute of Red Chair, who had to bring up a new Soviet intelligence. Mitin has been since 1919 a member of the CPSU (b). In the years 1939-1961 he was a member of the Central Committee of the CPSU In 1950-1962 deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR . From 1944 to 1950 he served on the editorial board of journals Bolshevik ( Russian Большевик ). Since 1939, five years director of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism at the CPSU Central Committee.
New philosophy
In the 1920s a debate raged within Soviet Dialectical Materialism between the Mechanists and the Dialecticians of the Deborin School. Deborin was initially victorious, but he was accused by Mitin of suffering from Menshevizing Idealism. Mitin lead the Red Professors in overthrowing Deborin. Mitin insisted that Deborin lacked Party-Spirit and did not recognize the unity of theory and praxis.