Lecture #2 Marxist Philosophy
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The Doctrine of Historical Materialism
Historical materialism is the doctrine that all of history is explainable in terms of the nature and development of the factors of production. If this development is frozen at any moment, we can then study society's structure in a static way. Any society in history has three levels: The lowest level is called the material forces of production. We are now starting in on historical materialism. Now I'm going to give first Marxist analysis of what he calls social change. He thinks that social change is due to changes in production. And this is the principle of historical Materialism.
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