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historical materialism: see dialectical materialism dialectical materialism, official philosophy of Communism, based on the writings of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels , as elaborated by G. V. Plekhanov , V. I. Lenin , and Joseph Stalin . ..... Click the link for more information. . How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The secular humanist historians rejected this kind of theistic historical interpretation and thus some of them eventually played a large part in the departure from idealist views on history and opened the door to the materialist conception of history that came to mark a significant segment of 20th century Afro-American intellectual culture. In Marx's materialist conception of history, the community, not the individual, was the basic unit of society: "only in the community has each individual the means of cultivating his gifts in all directions; hence personal freedom becomes possible only within the community" [p. |
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