It is for this reason that Marx attempted to combat alienation and awaken proletariat consciousness to instigate social revolution. Technological determinism is one interpretation of historical ...

Historical materialism is an essential feature not only of the Marxism of the traditional workers movement but also of Marxist-Leninist ideas. A critique of historical materialism explains some of the ...

But what exactly is Marx's historical materialism, and what is a materialist analysis? MATERIALISM FOR many people means two things: firstly, an obsession with material things (possessions ...

Marx was above all a scientist. He used the term historical materialism to explain that it was the material state of society that produced human relations. Today, perhaps especially in the United ...

Marx speaks for the workers who materially ... Even if there is such a thing as historical materialism, our future must not be determined by materialism. There is no waiting for the right ...

A. Cohen, who went from defending an interpretation of Karl Marx’s theory of historical materialism to rejecting that theory and expressing sympathy for key tenets of liberal egalitarianism ...

Marx contributed the central propositions of the Manifesto, which embody the materialist conception of history, or historical materialism. This theory was later explicitly formulated in Marx's ...