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21Dialectical and Historical Materialism — Joseph Stalin s Dialectical and Historical Materialism is a central text within Soviet political theory. The work first appeared in 1938, and draws heavily upon both Lenin s philosophical works, and the then new Short Course in the History of the …
22Dialectical materialism — Representing the influence of Friedrich Engels and in particular his book Anti Dühring (1878), dialectical materialism became the dominant Marxist philosophy in the Second International and official ideology in the Soviet Union. A term… …
23dialectical materialism — noun Date: 1927 the Marxist theory that maintains the material basis of a reality constantly changing in a dialectical process and the priority of matter over mind compare historical materialism …
24dialectical materialism — The dominant philosophical strain of Marxism, combining materialism as an embracing philosophy of nature and science, with the Hegelian notion of dialectic as a historical force, driving events onwards towards a progressive resolution of the… …
25Dialectical materialism — materialism, dialectical …
26dialectical materialism — materialism, dialectical …
27Dialectical materialism — the philosophical view that the only thing that can truly be said to exist is matter; that fundamentally, all things are composed of material and all phenomena are the result of material interactions. • Christian materialism the philosophical… …
28dialectical materialism — noun the Marxist theory that political and historical events result from the conflict of social forces (as caused by material needs) and are interpretable as a series of contradictions and their solutions. Derivatives dialectical materialist noun …
29dialectical materialism — /daɪəˌlɛktɪkəl məˈtɪəriəlɪzəm/ (say duyuh.lektikuhl muh tearreeuhlizuhm) noun the political, economic and social theory developed chiefly by Karl Marx, combining elements of traditional materialist philosophy and his interpretation of the method… …
30dialectical materialism — noun the materialistic philosophy of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels • Hypernyms: ↑materialism, ↑physicalism * * * diaˌlectical maˈterialism 7 [dialectical materialism] noun …
