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| | The Role of the Individual in History |
 | | This reproach was justitied as long as the doctrine that social phenomena conformed to certain laws reduced the influence of the personal qualities of prominent historical individuals to a cipher. | | | But every act of "securing" is also an historical event. | | | This would be going to an extreme which leaves no room for the particle of truth contained in the opposite opinion. |
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| | James Holstun: "Comment: Historical Materialism and Early Modern Studies" |
| | New York: Harper and Row, 1967); Religion and the Rise of Capitalism: A Historical Study (1926; rpt. | | | The semi-reified partial totalities of capitalist cultural theory can flourish, after a fashion, in the semi-reified partial totality of the capitalist university, so long as the state sees any reason at all to fund education in the humanities. | | | 9 Nonetheless, in its focus on "idolatry" as a sort of commodity fetishism, his book is deeply influenced by the historical materialist tradition. |
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| | Karl Marx |
| | We can see this by reflecting upon Hume's idea of the circumstances of justice. | | | This is a consequence of Marx's analysis of the role of ideas of justice from within historical materialism. | | | Again there would be no conflict and no need for justice. |
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| | Ad for historical materialism |
| | Payment has been made to NatWest Bank plc, Aldwych Branch, PO Box 221, Connaught House, 65 Aldwych, London WC2B 4EJ, Sort Code: 56-00-13. | | | HISTORICAL MATERIALISM wishes to encourage the new generation of Marxists. | | | Cheques, Eurocheques or bank drafts should be made payable to 'Historical Materialism' and be drawn in Pound Sterling |
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| | Historical materialism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Towards the end of his life, Engels commented several times about the abuse of historical materialism. | | | After Lenin's death in 1924, Marxism was transformed into Marxism-Leninism and from there to Maoism or Marxism-Leninism-Mao Ze Dong Thought in China which some regard as the "true doctrine" and others as a "state religion". | | | Hunter-gatherer societies were structured so that the economic forces and the political forces were one and the same. |
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| | The passage I quoted from Engels was one he censored from his own work. | | | Second, he wanted to move away from Feuerbach's vulgar materialism that argued that consciousness was a by-product of the material constitution of our brains and that the laws of nature were reflected in our thoughts. | | | Of course in Bogdanov's case you had an idealist who > labelled his idealism as materialism.... |
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| | Croce |
| | In addition to the law of social causality, which has been expounded, there must be a law of ends and ideals, i.e., a social teleologic. | | | The very idea of progress, which has seemed to many the only law of history worth saving out of the many devised by philosophical and non-philosophical thinkers, is by him deprived of the dignity of a law, and reduced to a sufficiently narrow significance. | | | Hence my friend Labriola ought not to attach too much importance, in his serious thoughts, to the adjectives final and definite, which have slipped from his pen. |
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| | dialectical materialism. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | Historical materialism is deterministic; that is, it prescribes that history inevitably follows certain laws and that individuals have little or no influence on its development. | | | Under these doctrines the social, political, and intellectual life of society reflect only the economic structure, since human beings create the forms of social life solely in response to economic needs. | | | Central to historical materialism is the belief that change takes place through the meeting of two opposing forces (thesis and antithesis); their opposition is resolved by combination produced by a higher force (synthesis). |
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| | Other Voices 1.1 (March 1997), The Dialectics of Allegoresis: Historical Materialism in Benjamin's Illuminations |
| | The Dialectics of Allegoresis: Historical Materialism in Benjamin's Illuminations | | | Imbued as it is with the logic of capitalism, such materiality can only be accepted if the historian first recognizes, as Benjamin did, that "there is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism" (256). | | | This possibility is predicated on the truth attaining transmissible form--a form towards which Benjamin's criticism, in all of its allegorical manifestations, pushes it. |
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| | Marx/Engels on Historical Materialism |
| | Freedom does not consist in any dreamt-of independence from natural laws, but in the knowledge of these laws..... | | | All previous historical movements were movements of minorities, or in the interest of minorities. | | | § 1: Political economy, in the widest sense, is the science of the laws governing the production and exchange of the material means of subsistence in human society. |
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| | MATERIALISM |
| | Herbert Feigl defended physicalism in the USA and consistently held that mental states are brain states and that mental terms have the same referent as physical terms (FeigI 1958). | | | The historical materialism developed by Marx and Engels sought to formulate laws of social, economic and historical development, but did not defend metaphysical materialism (see DIALECTICAL MATERIALISM). | | | This was fuelled by a Neo-Kantian movement which Particularly in Geschichte des Materialismus (History of Materialism) (1865) by F.A. LANGE, held that materialism is a useful methodological principle in science, but questionable as a reductionist metaphysics. |
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| | Karl Marx - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In the eastern state of West Bengal a coalition of Communist parties led by the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has been democratically elected to power at the provincial level continuously since 1977. | | | Karl Heinrich Mordechai Marx (May 5, 1818 Trier, Germany – March 14, 1883 London) was an influential philosopher, political economist, and revolutionary organizer of the International Workingmen's Association. | | | More specifically, they argue his analysis of social class and commodities is still useful, that his critique of capitalism can be easily applied to the current global situation, and that alienation is still a problem. |
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| | Historical Materialism: From Marx to Gramsci |
| | This transformation would necessarily entail (but not necessarily be limited to) the re-politicization and democratization of the economy and of civil society, such that they cease to be pseudo-objective and apparently natural conditions which confront isolated individuals as an ineluctable external "reality". | | | This historical "sedimentation" of popular common sense "is not something rigid and immobile, but is continually transforming itself, enriching itself with scientific ideas and with philosophical opinions which have entered ordinary life. | | | Critiques such as these imply that the abstraction of politics from the economy and the naturalization of a civil society of abstract individuals are historical conditions which are open to question and hence potentially to transformation. |
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| | Haines Brown, Bibliography for Historical Materialism |
| | For a brief popular discussion of matter defined as process, see for example, John D. Bernal, "Dialectical Materialism," in his The Freedom of Necessity (London, 1949), pp. | | | For the historic fact conceived as a potential having two dimensions so that it can be represented as a process in thought, of some help is M. | | | This might give my little bibliography some retrospective interest as a reflection of one aspect of intellectual life in the 20th century. |
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| | Historical Materialism |
| | The way in which the production process is organized changes in response to the means by which production is carried out – new technologies require new work organizations. | | | [Historical Materialism:] what history is all about is the development of the productive forces | | | So, Historical Materialism (the claim that history is moved by |
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| | Amazon.com: Democracy against Capitalism : Renewing Historical Materialism: Books |
| | In this book she sets out to renew the critical program of historical materialism by redefining its basic concepts and its theory of history in original and imaginative ways, using them to identify the specificity of capitalism as a system of social relations and political power. | | | Democracy against Capitalism : Renewing Historical Materialism (Paperback) |
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| | low culture |
| | I've been revising my musical revue of historical materialism ("Sing, Sang, Materialistische GeschichtsauffasSung!"), so my thoughts are a bit scattered at the moment, but I think the entire leak investigation can be read as a critique of the Annales school's perversion of Marxist historiography. |
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| | WWW-VL History Index |
| | Structuring Roman History: the Consular Year and the Roman Historical Tradition | | | Oswald Spengler, From The Decline of the West, Vol. | | | An Interdisciplinary Journal of Historical Inquiry and Debate |
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| | Historical Materialism |
| | History is the history of class struggle, and, because built around the conditions for reproducing material life (i.e. | | | Material view of world looks at property as the base of economy | | | historical development (class struggle, class consciousness central to Marxist history) |
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| | All material within these Archives, unless noted otherwise, is public domain. | | | Please use a marxists.org server close to where you are: Asia | | | MIA-created material is protected by the Creative Commons License. |
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