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ARTICLES RELATED TO Historical materialism - Disclaimers | | | |  Historical materialism - Disclaimers: Encyclopedia II - Historical materialism - DisclaimersMarx himself took care to indicate that he was only proposing a guideline to historical research (Leitfaden or Auffassung), and was not providing any substantive "theory of history" or "grand philosophy of history", let alone a "master-key to history". Numerous times, he and Engels expressed irritation with dilletante academics who sought to knock up their skimpy historical knowledge as quickly as possible into some grand theoretical system that would explain "everything" about history. To their great annoyance, the materialist outlook ...
See also:Historical materialism, Historical materialism - Development of the materialist outlook, Historical materialism - Disclaimers, Historical materialism - Historical materialism as doctrine, Historical materialism - Criticisms, Historical materialism - Marxist beliefs about history, Historical materialism - Alienation and freedom, Historical materialism - Marx and Wakefield, Historical materialism - A revision of historical materialism?, Historical materialism - Commentaries on different aspects of historical and dialectical materialism, Historical materialism - Note Read more here: » Historical materialism: Encyclopedia II - Historical materialism - Disclaimers |
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| | | | Historical materialism - Disclaimers: Encyclopedia II - Historical materialism - Commentaries on different aspects of historical and dialectical materialism http://marxmyths.org/jordan/article.htm
Gustav A. Wetter, Dialectical Materialism: a Historical and Systematic Survey of Philosophy in the Soviet Union. (alternative survey)
Loren R. Graham, Science Philosophy and Human Behavior in the Soviet Union. (sympathetically-critical of dialectical materialism)
George Novack, Understanding History: Marxist Essays (Trotskyist interpretations of problems of history)
http://www.marxists.org/archive/novack/index.htm
H. B. Acton, The Illusion of th ...
See also:Historical materialism, Historical materialism - Development of the materialist outlook, Historical materialism - Disclaimers, Historical materialism - Historical materialism as doctrine, Historical materialism - Criticisms, Historical materialism - Marxist beliefs about history, Historical materialism - Alienation and freedom, Historical materialism - Marx and Wakefield, Historical materialism - A revision of historical materialism?, Historical materialism - Commentaries on different aspects of historical and dialectical materialism, Historical materialism - Note Read more here: » Historical materialism: Encyclopedia II - Historical materialism - Commentaries on different aspects of historical and dialectical materialism |
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| | | | Historical materialism - Disclaimers: Encyclopedia II - Historical materialism - Note Brill publishers of Leyden publish a journal called "Historical Materialism" which explores different strands of theory in the tradition of Marx, Engels and the Western Marxists.
A variety of myths and lies about Marx's thought are refuted on this site: http://marxmyths.org/index.shtml
An extensive bibliography of modern commentaries on Marx's thought is available here: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Users/sefd0/bib/marx.htm
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See also:Historical materialism, Historical materialism - Development of the materialist outlook, Historical materialism - Disclaimers, Historical materialism - Historical materialism as doctrine, Historical materialism - Criticisms, Historical materialism - Marxist beliefs about history, Historical materialism - Alienation and freedom, Historical materialism - Marx and Wakefield, Historical materialism - A revision of historical materialism?, Historical materialism - Commentaries on different aspects of historical and dialectical materialism, Historical materialism - Note Read more here: » Historical materialism: Encyclopedia II - Historical materialism - Note |
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| | | | Historical materialism - Disclaimers: Encyclopedia II - Historical materialism - Marx and Wakefield In Das Kapital, Marx took from Edward Gibbon Wakefield's work the example of an emigré to Australia, to illustrate the concept of relations of production:
"...Wakefield discovered that in the Colonies, property in money, means of subsistence, machines, and other means of production, does not as yet stamp a man as a capitalist if there be wanting the correlative — the wage-worker, the other man who is compelled to sell himself of his own free-will. He discovered that capital is not a thing, but a social relation between persons, est ...
See also:Historical materialism, Historical materialism - Development of the materialist outlook, Historical materialism - Disclaimers, Historical materialism - Historical materialism as doctrine, Historical materialism - Criticisms, Historical materialism - Marxist beliefs about history, Historical materialism - Alienation and freedom, Historical materialism - Marx and Wakefield, Historical materialism - A revision of historical materialism?, Historical materialism - Commentaries on different aspects of historical and dialectical materialism, Historical materialism - Note Read more here: » Historical materialism: Encyclopedia II - Historical materialism - Marx and Wakefield |
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| | | | Historical materialism - Disclaimers: Encyclopedia II - Historical materialism - Criticisms The main serious objection advanced by the critics of Marxism and of historical materialism is that as soon as Marxists really begin to study the historical facts, there is either no longer anything distinctively "Marxist" about what they do, or else the facts are twisted to fit with a preconceived dogma.
In the worst case, this arguably leads to the totalitarian temptation to try and force the course of history in a particular direction, based on a false belief that one "knows" the way history is moving. The idea here i ...
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| | | | Historical materialism - Disclaimers: Encyclopedia II - Historical materialism - Historical materialism as doctrine Nevertheless, at least from the 1870s the pressure towards the doctrinalisation of Marx's interpretation of history became increasingly strong, for several reasons.
(1) Marx & Engels did aim to increase their own political influence in the labor movement and socialist movement, and for this they needed a popular ideology or doctrine which people could easily understand and act upon. Both men were quite capable of sple ...
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| | | | Historical materialism - Disclaimers: Encyclopedia II - Historical materialism - Development of the materialist outlook Marx and Friedrich Engels first developed their outlook on the dynamics of history as young men, in a series of early critiques of the idealist philosophers of their age, including The Holy Family, The Poverty of Philosophy, the 1844 Paris Manuscipts, The Condition of the Working Class in England, but more especially The German Ideology and the Theses on Feuerbach. An ex ...
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| | | | Historical materialism - Disclaimers: Encyclopedia II - Historical materialism - Marxist beliefs about history According to Marxist theorists, history develops in accordance with the following observations:
Social progress is driven by progress in the material, productive forces a society has at its disposal (technology, labor, capital goods, etc.)
Humans are inevitably involved in production relations (roughly speaking, economic relationships or institutions), which constitute our most decisive social relations.
Production relations progress, with a degree of inevitability, following and corresponding to the developmen ...
See also:Historical materialism, Historical materialism - Development of the materialist outlook, Historical materialism - Disclaimers, Historical materialism - Historical materialism as doctrine, Historical materialism - Criticisms, Historical materialism - Marxist beliefs about history, Historical materialism - Alienation and freedom, Historical materialism - Marx and Wakefield, Historical materialism - A revision of historical materialism?, Historical materialism - Commentaries on different aspects of historical and dialectical materialism, Historical materialism - Note Read more here: » Historical materialism: Encyclopedia II - Historical materialism - Marxist beliefs about history |
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