Maurice Cornforth

Maurice Campbell Cornforth (1909-1980) was a British Marxist philosopher. He is the author of several popular works such as Science versus Idealism (1946), The Theory of Knowledge (1954) and Communism and Human Values (1972).

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Maurice Cornforth

Maurice Cornforth

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