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“We’re gonna focus on two core philosophical components of Marxism: Dialectical Materialism and Historical Materialism. We’re going to show how both of these can be used to better understand the world and change it for the good of all poor and colonized people like ourselves. And in doing so we can debunk this widespread narrative in mainstream media that Marxism is somehow an outdated dogmatic religion. We can demonstrate that Marxism is truly a science and a weapon for revolutionary change.” — Ramiro Fúnez
ANTICONQUISTA on Feb 2, 2020
Decolonizing the myth that Marxism is a utopian, unscientific and outdated belief set. We explain the science of Marxism, focusing on its philosophical roots. We go over dialectical and historical materialism, the central tenets of Marxist philosophy.
See also:
Dialectical Materialism: The Science of Marxism Explained by Ramiro Fúnez
The German Ideology by Karl Marx
Dialectics of Nature by Frederick Engels
On Contradiction by Mao Tse-tung
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx
The History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
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Caleb Maupin: The Actual Nature of Revolution
The Difference Between Socialism, Communism, and Marxism Explained by a Marxist
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This is simple and brief introduction to dialectical and historical materialism, which will be useful for people unfamiliar with these (most Americans). However, these are complex fundamental concepts of Marxism, involving history, political economy, philosophy, and science, etc., which need a lot more study and elaboration. The following book, published by Progress Publishers in the former USSR, in-depth and thorough analysis and explication of these, as well as various other essential categories and parts of Marxist-Leninist philosophy. Essential methods of dialectics and dialectical logic were created by German philosopher, Hegel, which Marx utilized for his own materialist philosophy and political economy. Overwhelming majority of Marxists in the West, are content with bookish descriptions of dialectical and historical materialism. They fail to apply dialectics for the analyses and explanation of new problems and new reality of the current epoch, in which Marxism-Leninism and socialist revolutions have been betrayed in the giants of socialism, the former USSR and Peoples Republic of China, as well as in most other former socialist countries. They also fail to incorporate new extremely important and relevant knowledge, which has developed in some sciences, into dialectical and historical materialism, for example, in the field of epigenetics, which is being applied in many areas of non-Marxist social sciences.
In Marxism, human conscious originated through the evolution of matter. However, as is self-evident, and also pointed out by Marxism, matter and consciousness interact dialectically, each actively influencing and developing the other.
Malinin, V. A., N. I. Sorokoumskaya, V. N. Yermolayeva, and T. F. Latynskaya. (1974). The Fundamentals of Marxist-Leninist Philosophy. Moscow: Progress Publishers.
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