dialectical materialism (redirected from Materialist dialectics)

dialectical materialism

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The Marxian interpretation of reality that views matter as the sole subject of change and all change as the product of a constant conflict between opposites arising from the internal contradictions inherent in all events, ideas, and movements.

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dialectical materialism

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(Philosophy) (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) (Economics) the economic, political, and philosophical system of Karl Marx (1818-83) and Friedrich Engels (1820-95), the German political philosophers, that combines traditional materialism and Hegelian dialectic

dialectical materialist  n

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dialectical materialism

the combination of traditional materialism and Hegelian dialectic as espoused in the economic and political philosophies of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. — dialectical materialist.

See also: Communism

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dialectical materialism - the materialistic philosophy of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels physicalism, materialism - (philosophy) the philosophical theory that matter is the only reality