Red Menace The Fundamentals of Marxism: Dialectics, Historical Materialism, and Class Struggle
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Sep 29, 2020 AI Snips
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Socialism as a Historical Process
- Socialism is a historical process transitioning from capitalism to communism, not a static state.
- Communism is a stateless, classless society and has never been fully realized.
Historical Materialism Explains Change
- Historical materialism argues that history is driven by changes in material conditions, not ideas.
- This view exposes contradictions in idealist histories, revealing economic conflicts as the true drivers of change.
Dialectics Drives Change
- Dialectics is the process where development arises from contradictions and opposition within material reality.
- Dialectics helps understand constant change and conflict in history and nature.