Marxism and Problems of Linguistics - From Marx to Mao

54NOTES1 Stalin’s essay Marxism and Problems of Linguistics was published inPravda on June 20, 1950. Prior to this, there had already been discussionon Soviet linguistic problems in Pravda. This essay by Comrade Stalinis in reply to questions put to him by a group of Soviet students in connectionwith the discussion, and to essays published in Pravda’s columns.The titles of these latter were “On the Path of Materialist Linguistics”by member of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences Bulakhovsky, “TheHistory of Russian Linguistics and Marx’s Theory” by Nikiforov, “Onthe Problem of the Class Character of Language” by Kudriavtsev andothers. p. 12 Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, Works, Ger. ed., Berlin, 1958,Vol. 3, p. 212. p. 133 Ibid., pp. 411-12. p. 134 Ibid., 1957, Vol. 2, p. 351. p. 145 Paul Lafargue (1842-1911), well-known activist of French and internationalworkers’ movements, and outstanding Marxist propagandistand publicist. He was one of the founders of the French Workers’ Party,student and comrade-in-arms of Marx and Engels, and husband of Marx’sdaughter Laura. p. 146 Bund, General Jewish Workers’ Union of Lithuania, Poland andRussia, was a Jewish petty-bourgeois opportunist organization foundedat a congress held in Vilna in October, 1897, which worked mainly amongJewish handicraftsmen. At the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party’sFirst Congress in 1898, Bund joined the R.S.D.L.P. as “an independentautonomous organization concerned only with the special problems of theJewish proletariat.” Once it joined the Party, however, it propagated