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Can someone explain dialectical and historical materialism to me? (lemmygrad.ml)
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I read the entire book Joe wrote but I'm not sure I'm fully understanding it

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[–] GrainEater@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 2 years ago

Everything is connected and constantly changing; qualitative changes result from many quantitative changes. This is basically dialectical materialism. Historical materialism is the application of dialectical materialism to analyzing history -- "human nature" is dynamic, the existence of classes lead to class struggle, etc.