dialectical contradictions
1Dialectical materialism — Part of a series on Marxism …
2Dialectical 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 …
3dialectical 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… …
4dialectical 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 …
5Dialectic — The School of Athens, by Raphael. Dialectic (also dialectics and the dialectical method) is a method of argument for resolving disagreement that has been central to Indic and European philosophy since antiquity. The word dialectic originated in… …
6Frankfurt School — This article is about the philosophical school. For the business school, see Frankfurt School of Finance Management. Part of a series on the …
7SUBJECTS AND ISSUES — Marxism and Philosophy: Dialectics and Materialism ■ Balibar, Etienne. The Philosophy of Marx. London: Verso, 1995. ■ Bhaskar, Roy. Dialectics. London: Verso, 1992. ■ Callinicos, Alex. Marxism and Philosophy. London: Oxford University Press,… …
8dialecticalmaterialism — dialectical materialism n. The Marxian interpretation of reality that views matter as the sole subject of change and all change as the product of a constant conflict between opposites arising from the internal contradictions inherent in all… …
9Marxism — /mahrk siz euhm/, n. the system of economic and political thought developed by Karl Marx, along with Friedrich Engels, esp. the doctrine that the state throughout history has been a device for the exploitation of the masses by a dominant class,… …
10Marxism (Philosophies of) — Philosophies of Marxism Lenin, Lukács, Gramsci, Althusser Michael Kelly INTRODUCTION Marxist philosophy can be seen as a struggle with Hegel or a struggle with capitalism, that is, as an intellectual or a political movement. Neither of these… …
