dialectical materialism

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Etymology

Calque of German dialektischer Materialismus, coined by Joseph Dietzgen in Streifzüge eines Sozialisten in das Gebiet der Erkenntnißtheorie .[1]

Noun

dialectical materialism (uncountable)

  1. (philosophy) The concept of reality in which material things are in the constant process of change brought about by the tension between conflicting or interacting forces, elements, or ideas.
    Synonym: (shortening) diamat
    • 1906 [1887], Joseph Dietzgen, “Streifzüge eines Sozialisten in das Gebiet der Erkenntnißtheorie [Excursions of a Socialist into the Domain of Epistemology]”, in Max Beer & Theodor Rothstein, transl., edited by Eugene Dietzgen & Joseph Dietzgen Jr., Some of the Philosophical Essays by Joseph Dietzgen‎:
      Because the idealist perversity in its last representatives, namely Kant, Fichte, Schelling and Hegel, was thoroughly German, its issue, dialectical materialism, is also a pre-eminently German product.

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References

  1. ^ Beamish, Rob (2007) “dialectical materialism”, in Ritzer, George, editor, The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishing, pages 1050 - 1051
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