ABSTRACT
The crisis of present-day capitalist economy has produced a most profound crisis in the whole of capitalist culture; a crisis in individual branc.hes of science, a crisis in epistemology, a crisis in world outlook, a crisis in world feeling. In such historical circumstances the question of the interrelations between theory and practice has also become one of the most acute problems, and, moreover, as a question both of theory and of practice simultaneously. Therefore we have to examine problems from various aspects: (a) as a problem of epistemology, (b) as a problem of sociology, (c) as a problem of history, (el) as a problem of modern culture. Lastly t it is interesting (e) to verify the corresponding theoretical conceptions from the gigantic experience of the revolution, and (j) to give a certain forecas~. 1.-The epistemological importance 0/ the problem.
