Historical materialism

F. Konstantinov

pp. 147-178

in: Thomas J. Blakeley (ed), Themes in Soviet Marxist philosophy, Berlin, Springer, 1975

Abstract

Historical materialism is the science of the most general laws and motive forces of the development of human society. It arose in the middle of the 19th Century. Its creators were the heroes and ideologists of the working class, Marx and Engels. Having established a new world-outlook in philosophy — dialectical materialism, Marx and Engels extended it to knowledge of society, history of society and social life.

Cited authors

Marx Karl

Engels Friedrich