• 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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  • Cārvāka Christian materialism Critical realism Cultural materialism Dialectical materialism Economic materialism Existence French materialism Grotesque body...
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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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  • 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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    and followed Marxist-Leninist philosophy and staunchly promoted dialectical materialism and projected it on his astrophysical interpretations. Helge Kragh...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • understand his later works properly. Contrary to the official dialectical materialism of the Soviet Union and to the structural Marxism of Louis Althusser...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    "new Tao". Zaehner, Dialectical Christianity (1971), pp. 32,  37-38 (Communist theory). Cf., Gustav A. Wetter, Dialectical Materialism ([Wien: Herder 1952];...
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    works are attempts to reconcile the idealism of Hegelian-dialectics with the dialectical materialism of Marx and Engels, and position Stalinism as a 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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    Marxists then developed this tendency to the state doctrine of dialectical materialism. Since 1931, Engels has had a Russian city named after him—Engels...
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    the city and the production of social space, and for his work on dialectical materialism, alienation, and criticism of Stalinism, existentialism, and structuralism...
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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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  • impediment to human progress and correcting it is a major focus of dialectical materialism. Although Marx never used the term "false consciousness" in his...
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  • eighteenth-century Encyclopaedists or the materialism of Feuerbach. This is beyond doubt. But the dialectical materialism of Marx and Engels goes further than...
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    a variant of historical determinism linked to his reliance on dialectical materialism as an endogenous mechanism for social change. Marx wrote: At a...
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    Intelligent Materialism: Essays on Hegel and Dialectics 1960. Dialectics of the Abstract & the Concrete in Marx’s Capital 1974. Dialectical Logic, Essays...
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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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