Dialectical materialism definition is the marxist theory that maintains the material basis of a reality constantly changing in a dialectical process and the priority of matter over mind. Materialism and the dialectical method red star publishers. Dialectical materialism is a philosophy of science and nature developed in europe and based. Philosophy as a worldview philosophy as methodology. The universe must necessarily be a perpetuum mobile, and for this reason infinite in matter and space. The study of the marxist theory of development, dialectical materialism, is essential to the building of a marxistleninist party and hence for a solidly grounded. I have recently been reading persepolis by marjane satrapi for my english 1a class. It is called dialectical materialism because its approach to the phenomena of nature, its method of studying and apprehending them, is dialectical, while its interpretation of the phenomena of nature, its.
Marjane is given a comic book called dialectic materialism which becomes her favorite book. Materialist dialectics is the general movement and development caused by the conflict of contradictions that takes place. Even under ideal circumstances, this term is difficult to define adequately, so lets look at the two words individually and see how they come together. The fact is that there is no marxist philosophy of dialectical materialism. At the root of this is dialectical materialism, which is most productively understood in relation to the intersection of the competing utopian plans and impulses of american identity, mass culture. With the aim of widening the scope of marxist theory, henr. The first is that neither marx nor engels described their views on dialectics as dialectical materialism.
For those interest in learning more about marxist philosophy please read dialectical materialism. Stalin september 1938 dialectical materialism is the world outlook of the marxistleninist party. Dialectical materialism by henri lefebvre goodreads. Help finding dialectic materialism comic book february 16, 2005 10. It is the dialectical method that allows us to talk of marxismleninism as being scientific socialism. Not only is it the sole outlook which gives a scientificallybased understanding of the world around us. While some of us as children were reading life is hell and mad magazine, marjane satrapi was reading comic books on marxist theory. The dialectical conception of development 46 part two. The hermeneutic aspect of marxs thought, that is, the exegesis that quite literally is dialectical materialism and economic determinism for the text of history, reveals itself in terms of what it seeks to uncover. Dialectical definition and meaning collins english. Buy dialectical materialism 1 by henri lefebvre, john sturrock, stefan kipfer isbn. Help finding dialectic materialism comic book comicbook. Marxs economic work is largely a search for value and process. This view, generally accepted by early thinkers of a socialist and positivist inclination, was adopted by lenin.
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