• Dialectical materialism is a materialist theory based upon the writings of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels that has found widespread applications in a...
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  • Dialectical and Historical Materialism (Russian: О диалектическом и историческом материализме), by Joseph Stalin, is a central text within the Soviet Union's...
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  • internal contradictions. Dialectical materialism, a theory advanced by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, adapted the Hegelian dialectic into a materialist theory...
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  • Dialectical Materialism and Historical Materialism is a Chinese textbook of Marxist–Leninist and Maoist philosophy, written and edited by Ai Siqi in 1961...
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  • developed dialectical materialism, by taking Hegelian dialectics, stripping them of their idealist aspects, and fusing them with materialism (see Modern...
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    claimed "a theoretical space moulded by three centres of gravity: Hegelian dialectics, Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, and contemporary criticism of ideology"...
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  • new course. This represents the dialectical part of Marx's famous theory of dialectical (or historical) materialism. — Hubert Kay, Life, 1948 Marx based...
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    interpretation of Marxism, dialectical materialism, fit Oparin's speculation on the origins of life as 'a flow, an exchange, a dialectical unity'. This notion...
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  • Soviet Union, which enforced a rigid reading of what Marx called dialectical materialism, in particular during the 1930s. Marxist philosophy is not a strictly...
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  • Friedrich Engels that applies Marxist ideas – particularly those of dialectical materialism – to nature. Engels wrote most of the manuscript between 1872 and...
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  • There is a movement toward the recognition that historical materialism and dialectical materialism remain the fundamental aspects of all Marxist schools of...
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  • Marxism (category Historical materialism)
    analysis. It uses a dialectical and materialist interpretation of historical development, better known as historical materialism, to analyse class relations...
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    notion of negative dialectics as a critique of the positive, idealistic dialectics of Hegel and the Marxist dialectical materialism that grew out of it...
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  • literary critic Raymond Williams Historical materialism, Karl Marx's theory of history Dialectical materialism, a philosophy of science, history, and nature...
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    proletariat. Marx claims to invert Hegel's idealist dialectics in his own theory of dialectical materialism, arguing that "it is not the consciousness of men...
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  • holistic combination of Christian theology with some ideas of (ontological) materialism, a belief that matter is a fundamental substance of the world and that...
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    of higher education in the Soviet Union, as a seminal work of dialectical materialism, a part of the curriculum called "Marxist–Leninist Philosophy"...
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    Chinese Marxist philosophy is the philosophy of dialectical materialism that was introduced into China in the early 1900s and continues in Chinese academia...
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  • Total Power. Yet this materialism is distinct from Marxist dialectical materialism, as well as from philosophical materialism. Thomas Malthus's work...
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    and followed Marxist-Leninist philosophy and staunchly promoted dialectical materialism and projected it on his astrophysical interpretations. Helge Kragh...
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    than the content of what is said, undermines its conclusion. In dialectical materialism: Contradiction—as derived from Hegelianism—usually refers to an...
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    synchronic understanding of montage inspired by his foray into dialectical materialism as a guiding principle. The shift between the two periods is indicative...
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  • science to the philosophy of dialectical materialism and materialist philosophy in general. Althusser rejects dialectical materialism and introduces a new concept:...
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    of Classical German Philosophy (1886). His writings on materialism, idealism, and dialectics supplied Marxism with an ontological and metaphysical foundation...
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  • normative ethics based around the principles of historical and dialectical materialism, and Marx's analysis of the capitalist mode of production. The...
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  • Intercommunalism (category Dialectical materialism)
    was also opposed to historical materialism, which Newton saw as dogmatic, or mechanical in its application of dialectics. Newton particularly disagreed...
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  • to supplement the perceived deficiencies of orthodox Marxism or dialectical materialism. Many prominent neo-Marxists, such as Herbert Marcuse and other...
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  • developed a dialectical idealism before Marx and Engels combined dialectics with materialism, and Lenin and Stalin further developed it. With dialectical materialism...
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  • related to the class nature of the Soviet state, the philosophy of dialectical materialism and party factions in the American Socialist Workers Party. These...
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    Anti-Dühring (category Dialectical materialism)
    English translation was published in 1892. This work also influenced Materialism and Empirio-criticism by Vladimir Lenin. In the book, Engels articulated...
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