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   Historical materialism

   Historical materialism is the methodological approach to the study of society, economics, and history which was first articulated by Karl Marx (1818-1883). Marx himself never used the term but referred to his approach as "the materialist conception of history."
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   Historical Materialism (journal)

   Historical Materialism is an interdisciplinary journal published quarterly. It is dedicated to exploring and developing the critical and explanatory potential of Marxist theory.
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   Dialectical materialism

   Marx himself had talked about the "materialist conception of history", which was later referred as "historical materialism" by Engels.
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   Materialism

   In early 12th-century al-Andalus, the Arabian philosopher, Ibn Tufail (Abubacer), wrote discussions on materialism in his philosophical novel, Hayy ibn Yaqdhan (Philosophus Autodidactus), while vaguely foreshadowing the idea of a historical materialism.
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   Anarchism and Marxism

   Anarchists use a wide variety of tools of social analysis and some anarchists see value in historical materialism as a tool for social analysis.
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   Marx's theory of human nature

   Hence, 'historical materialism and Marxist philosophical anthropology are independent of, though also consistent with, each other' (p174, see especially sections 10 and 11).
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   Marxism

   Historical materialism: Historical materialism was first articulated by Marx, although he himself never used the term.
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   Glossary of philosophical isms

   Historical materialism – the methodological approach to the study of society, economics, and history which was first articulated by Karl Marx.
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   Karl Marx

   At the base of historical materialism, they claim, is the view that the mode of production creates all historical events and changes.
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    Louis Althusser

    On this view, the validity of knowledge is not guaranteed by its correspondence to something external to itself; because Marx's historical materialism is a science, it contains its own internal methods of proof.

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