The precise nature of the relation between dialectical and formal logic was hotly debated within the Soviet Union and China.
Its proponents claim it is a materialist approach to logic, drawing on the objective, material world.
[1] Stalin argued in his "Marxism and Problems of Linguistics" that there was no class content to formal logic and that it was an acceptable neutral science.
[3] Some Soviet philosophers argued that the materialist dialectic could be seen in the mathematical logic of Bertrand Russell; however, this was criticized by Deborin and the Deborinists as panlogicism.
He followed Hegel in insisting that formal logic had been sublated, arguing that logic needed to be a unity of form and content and to state actual truths about the objective world.