ABSTRACT
Marxism played a central role in the rich scientific and intellectual life of Soviet Georgia. This chapter analyses the development of Marxist thought over two generations of intellectuals in the postwar period, focusing on the topics of imperialism, anti-communism, the social role of science, and communist morality. It argues that maintaining orthodoxy and the Marxist-Leninist structure of scientific communism, political economy, and historical materialism was essential for sustaining the ideological struggle against capitalism and bourgeois academia in Soviet Georgia. While engaging with Western scholarship, notably the work of C. Wright Mills, Georgian Marxists maintained a principled and consistent commitment to Marxism-Leninism as the main philosophical, ideological, and political line from which dialog was possible.
