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historical materialism
–noun
| (in Marxist theory) the doctrine that all forms of social thought, as art or philosophy, and institutions, as the family or the state, develop as a superstructure founded on an economic base; that they reflect the character of economic relations and are altered or modified as a result of class struggles; that each ruling economic class produces the class that will destroy or replace it; and that dialectical necessity requires the eventual withering away of the state and the establishment of a classless society: the body of theory, in dialectical materialism, dealing with historical process and social causation. |
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Historical materialism
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| historical materialism
n. A major tenet in the Marxist theory of history that regards material economic forces as the base on which sociopolitical institutions and ideas are built. |
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