The most important principle and feature that distinguishes the Marxist philosophy from other philosophies. Practice is the perceptual material activity that human beings purposefully do to transform the objective world. The principle of practice is the first importance in the theory of knowledge of dialectical materialism, and a fundamental principle making the Marxist philosophy surpass all previous philosophies. Lenin emphasized in Materialism and Empirio-Criticism that “The standpoint of life, of practice, should be first and fundamental in the theory of knowledge…”
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