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dialectical materialism
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dialectical materialism
n.
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.
dialectical materialism
n
(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
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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Noun1.dialectical materialism - the materialistic philosophy of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
physicalism, materialism - (philosophy) the philosophical theory that matter is the only reality


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From this work came what his German disciple, Rudi Dutschke, referred to as "the long march through the institutions"--that is, the gradual subversion of the existing structures of Western civilization by the application of various forms of dialectical materialist theory.
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