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Marx and Engels’s dialectical theory of history?
please explain Marx and Engels’s dialectical theory of history and How the Communist Manifesto illustrates this theory, (i have read much about this theory but it still does not make any sense, could someone explain it to me in an easy to understand matter)
thanks in advance
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- wjstixLv 58 years agoFavorite Answer
Very few people probably really understand the idea of dialectical materialism. I'm sure I don't, it's a very complicated philosophical idea. Dialectic basically means 'two in one'. Marx believed a thing was itself and it's opposite at the same time. I'm living, but every minute I'm one minute closer to death, so in a sense, I'm dying. In a revolution, he argued that often when the government in power seemed the most powerful, it was in fact at it's weakest and ready to be toppled.
- prochnowLv 44 years ago
I completely propose a violent overthrow of the capitalist gadget. actually. heavily? How do any of you suspect that? The society while Marx lived replaced into an extremely diverse one from the single that it fairly is in the present day. human beings worked for 12 hours an afternoon, infants even, for pennies. those human beings worked for landlords and industrialists who themselves under no circumstances worked an afternoon of their lives. Marx observed his new ideology as a final motel to a crooked and corrupt financial gadget. "His theories and predictions weren't in any respect shown for the time of his existence and the U.S. conclusively proved him incorrect approximately his maximum ardent component approximately classification war." it fairly is via the fact liberalism proved him incorrect. Unemployment coverage, social courses, minimum wages, exertions unions, social protection, and so on. have deflated Marxism and made it pointless. those have been all creations of liberalism. If conservatives had their way, we would all nevertheless be working interior the mines 12 hours an afternoon for basically 1 / 4 for a week's nicely worth of paintings. Conservatives have continually acted as obstructionists for the recommendations that made Marxism beside the point, possibly they're the genuine communists. useful sounds like a accident, huh?
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