Menshevik Machist attacked in Lenin's Materialism and Empirio-criticism; translator of Engels's Dialectics of Nature
Born in 1873 into a Jewish small trader's family in Odessa, he was exiled for Marxist circle work and studied mathematics at the Sorbonne. He took part in the 1905 revolution as a Menshevik. In Materialism and Critical Realism (1908) and his essay in Studies in the Philosophy of Marxism he criticized orthodox Marxist philosophy from a theory of knowledge he called "empirio-symbolism", holding that Marxism need not fear "bourgeois theories" but could assimilate them. Attacked by Lenin as one of the Russian Machists, he replied in 1910. At the Marx-Engels Institute in 1922–1930 he made the first Russian translation of Engels's Dialectics of Nature, and he died in Moscow in 1945.
Also known as: Pavel Iushkevich
Activities and affiliations
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1905–
Scholarship and theory
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1907–1912
Scholarship and theory
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1922–1930
Soviet Union state institutionsTranslator at the Marx-Engels Institute
Scholarship and theory
Career Timeline
- 1891Graduated from the Second Odessa Gymnasium; Marxist circle
- 1905Took part in the 1905 revolution as a Menshevik
- 1908Materialism and Critical Realism; essay in Studies in the Philosophy of Marxism
- 1910The Pillars of Philosophical Orthodoxy
- 1912World View and World Views
- 1913–1915Co-edited the series New Ideas in Mathematics
- 1917Statistical department of the Odessa city soviet
- 1922–1930Marx-Engels Institute; translated Dialectics of Nature