Historical materialism
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historical-materialism-189-2560631
title:
Historical materialism
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Historical materialism is Karl Marx's theory of history. Marx located historical change in the rise of class societies and the way humans labor together to make their livelihoods. Karl Marx stated that technological development can change the modes of production over time. This change in the mode of production inevitably encourages changes to a society's economic system. Marx's lifetime collaborator, Friedrich Engels, coins the term "historical materialism" and describes it as "that view of the
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Marxist historiography
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_materialism
date created:
2001-06-09T13:24:23Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T07:37:16Z
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