Critical engagement with dialectical materialism?

So I’m pretty into epistemology, the study of knowledge and how we know what we know. I’m sure anyone who’s looked into it has opinions, but it’s probably safe to say that the consensus of the last century has largely been against empiricism and logical positivism.I recently encountered the Machist ideas of Bogdanov, and read a bit of Lenin’s response to Bogdanov’s Empiriomonism, in the form of his Materialism and Empirio-criticism.The gist of Bogdanov’s Machism can be summarized with the claim that the material world has no existence independent of the observer, that the world is organized by perception. Lenin makes the counter-assertion that “human perceptions correctly and accurately reflect an objective external world.”I think most modern epistemology would lean towards Bogdanov in this dispute, maybe even regarding Mach’s claims as obvious in the light of recent developments in the philosophy of science, while Lenin’s claim comes off as a bit, well, frankly naive, and his metaphysics seem inadequate.Have any modern marxist thinkers dealt with this stuff? Epistemology is like, pretty important to the project of scientific marxism I would think, especially concerning the sociology of knowledge. I know Lukacs dealt with a bit of this stuff, but what else should I read? via /r/communism https://ift.tt/3kZFZIb