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[BEST OF] The Fundamentals of Marxism: Historical Materialism, Dialectics, & Political Economy

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The Marxist View of Dialectics

For a marxist, having a proper understanding of tory is not just about understanding that material reality is primary over ideas, but also about understanding that history is marked by constant change and development as a result of opposing and contradicting classes. So the young merchant class of colony found itself opposed, and its interests in contradiction to the old monarchical power of the european state. And history thus was advanced. It was moved forward Not because of the contradicting ideas that these people had, you know, leading to a new, better idea, but because the material interests of these two classes found themselves in contradiction to each other. From that contradiction emerged a bloody, violent revolutionary struggle.

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