For Öcalan, who declared that “the state is one of the most dangerous inventions in human history; it is the crystallized ...

Karl Marx is widely regarded as one of the most sophisticated theorists of human history. Marx was above all a scientist. He used the term historical materialism to explain that it was the ...

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 ...

Prior to 1845 Marx was an ideological humanist; subsequent to 1845 Marx began to lay down the foundations for a historical materialist science (whose outlines Althusser finds himself unable to make ...

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 ...

For Marx, materialism was about acknowledging the way the real world impacts on people's lives, and acknowledging their ability to come together to change society. THE WORD "idealism" is usually ...

He then quoted from Marx’s Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, published in 1859, which sums up the basic postulates of historical materialism.

Materialism has always been a destructive idea and it stands no chance against the superstition of humanity who knows the game is rigged even if the details are wrong. The worst side of Marxism is ...