Materialism and Empirio-criticism
![Front cover of the first edition of Lenin's Materialism and Empirio-Criticism, published in Moscow in 1909 under the pseudonym](/Images/godic/202501/11/Materialism-and-Empirio-Criticism4946.jpg")
Materialism and Empiriocriticism (Russian: Материализм и эмпириокритицизм, Materializm i empiriokrititsizm) is a philosophical work by Vladimir Lenin, published in 1909. It was an obligatory subject of study in all institutions of higher education in the Soviet Union, as a seminal work of dialectical materialism, a part of the curriculum called "Marxist-Leninist Philosophy". In the text Lenin argued that human perceptions correctly and accurately reflect the objective external world.