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The Fundamentals of Marxism: Dialectics, Historical Materialism, and Class Struggle

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The History of the American Revolution

David Frum: We can think about the American Revolution and how we as people trying to understand historical development can explain it. He says most of us have been taught an explanation that is largely an idealist explanation. A Marxist would offer a historical materialist explanation, he says. Frum: The revolution was motivated more or less by this kind of noble belief in these great ideas.

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