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The work dеаls with the so-called realistic movement in modern bourgeois philosophy. In the introductory part the author investigates the sociologic-historical and economical conditions of its origin and its effects and is characterising it as one of the most powerful and influential trend of ideas in the bourgeois philosophy of the XXth century as well as an attempt to create a front ready to fight against the scientific materialism and to strenghtett the world conception of the ruling class in the time of a deep crisis of the idealistic philosophy. He understands the realistic movement to he a broad-founded ideological basis which gave birth to various forms of „realism“. Their specific character was determined by several factore, especially by sociologic-economical ones, by the level of the development of ecience and by industrial technics. As an example for the analysis of the specific character of one of them he chose the American neo-realism. After giving a short characteristic of the general situation concerning the life in the United States during the first decadee of our century he comes to analyse the gnoseological bases of the neorealism. At the same time he mentions the specific form of work of the American neorealists in developing their theories which are certainly worth to be attended to. In the chapter „Neo-realism and Subjective realism“ the author draws conclusion that where the neo-realism completely eliminated the subjective part in the process of knowledge he took to the position of subjective idealism. In the following chapter he shows how the neo-realism by teaching about „universals“ or „essences“ assumes certain forms of objective idealism. The endeavours of the neo-realists to generalize the modern scientific theories the author considers as an attempt to distort and abuse the scientific knowledge and theories in favour of idealistic generalization. In the end he assumes that in trying to create an opposition against extremely reactionary idealistic views their endeavour has to be positively appreciated.