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| | Croce |
 | | The doctrine of historical materialism is not embodied in a classical and definite book by those authors, with whom it is as it were identified; so that, to discuss that book and to discuss the doctrine might seem all one thing. | | | If historical materialism is stripped of every survival of finality and of the benignities of providence, it can afford no apology for either socialism or any other practical guidance for life. | | | And lastly the name materialism is perhaps not without influence here, since it brings to mind at once well-understood interests and the calculating comparison of pleasures. |
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http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/marx/croce.htm
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| | What this sentence says is that empiricist argue that it is possible to hold truth objectively, and the historical materialist says this is impossible because we each approach the world socialized, with symbolic systesm and a cultural heritage which gives up the meaning with which to make sence of the world. | | | Note that this is the argument to which the poster has compared my argument, quoted a few sentences before. | | | Since the secret of spirit was solved, only the movement of matter, its historical manifestation, remained significant. |
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http://www.mtsu.edu/~jaeller/text/hismat3
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| | Karl Marx |
| | Marx's explanation, of course, is that religion is a response to alienation in material life, and cannot be removed until human material life is emancipated, at which point religion will wither away. | | | Precisely what it is about material life that creates religion is not set out with complete clarity. | | | In contemporary biology it is commonplace to explain the existence of the stripes of a tiger, or the hollow bones of a bird, by pointing to the function of these features. |
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http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/marx
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| | James Holstun: "Comment: Historical Materialism and Early Modern Studies" |
| | For Hawkes, religion is creative practical consciousness, to be taken seriously for its own sake, as it illuminates the premodern and modern worlds. | | | It may be that the belief that the power of metaphysical evil -- we might simply say 'Satan' -- does not exert any influence on the material world is the most pernicious of all superstitions" (¶8). | | | "Resonance" quickly disappears, and good riddance; it was a strangely aestheticized term in the first place; the more traditional historical materialist criterion would be that its arguments stand or fall on their greater or lesser explanatory power -- that bolder, totalizing arguments explain more, not less. |
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http://eserver.org/emc/1-4/holstun_response.html
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| | The Role of the Individual in History |
| | What is incontrovertible is the following: The new school of history arose in the twenties of the l9th century at a time when the bourgeoisie had already vanquished the aristocracy, although the latter was still striving to restore some of its old privileges. | | | Lanson observes that "all the doctrines which called for the utmost exertion of human will asserted, in principle, that the will was impotent; they rejected free will and subjected the world to fatalism." | | | Bossuet thought that the force which causes historical events to take place comes from above, that events serve to express the divine will. |
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| | Historical materialism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | After Lenin's death in 1924, Marxism was transformed into Marxism-Leninism and from there to Maoism or Marxism-Leninism-Mao Ze Dong Thought in China which some regard as the "true doctrine" and others as a "state religion". | | | Commentaries on different aspects of historical and dialectical materialism | | | It can be contrasted with other interpretations of history (which Marxists might call idealisms) which attribute the causes of historical and social change primarily to politics, philosophy, art, God, or any number of other manifestations of consciousness. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_materialism
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| | MATERIALISM |
| | Many of the arguments that sustained earlier forms of materialism (including the assumption of causality as universal in nature) have been put in question. | | | Since it denies the existence of spiritual beings or forces, materialism typically is allied with atheism or agnosticism. | | | He appreciated the scientific interpretation of nature and the methods of science but, at the same time, preserved the Christian idea of the immortality of the soul and conceived of God as the creator of the atoms. |
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http://members.aol.com/NeoNoetics/Materialism.html
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| | Charles Elkins- Isaac Asimov's FOUNDATION Novels: Historical Materialism Distorted into Cyclical Psycho-History |
| | Socialism will come inevitably because it is inevitable that men, definite classes of men, will stand for its realization, and they will do so under circumstances that will make their victory certain." | | | He has imported a watered-down idiom of his time—the banal, pseudo-factual style of the mass-circulation magazines—into a world twelve thousand years into the future, with no change at all! | | | This conflict between Asimov’s precepts and practice is a consequence of contradictory notions he holds about the nature of historical change. |
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http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/backissues/8/elkins8art.htm
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| | Haines Brown, Bibliography for Historical Materialism |
| | This might give my little bibliography some retrospective interest as a reflection of one aspect of intellectual life in the 20th century. | | | With a claim to universality, cosmology proves particularly instructive for a notion of historical materialism. | | | Our conceptual system and our experience of the world are dialectically related, but it seems best (both for reasons of one's social class and because of the arguments in support of scientific realism) to start with the latter, with both social experience and our experience of the natural world. |
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| | Karl Marx - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In The Essence of Christianity, Feuerbach argued that God is really a creation of man and that the qualities people attribute to God are really qualities of humanity. | | | But he did not believe that the material world hides from us the "real" world of the ideal; on the contrary, he thought that historically and socially specific ideologies prevented people from seeing the material conditions of their lives clearly. | | | Karl Popper has criticized Marx's theories as he believed they were not falsifiable, which he argued would render some particular aspects of Marx’s historical and socio-political arguments unscientific. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx
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| | dialectical materialism. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | Historical materialism is deterministic; that is, it prescribes that history inevitably follows certain laws and that individuals have little or no influence on its development. | | | Central to historical materialism is the belief that change takes place through the meeting of two opposing forces (thesis and antithesis); their opposition is resolved by combination produced by a higher force (synthesis). | | | In theory dialectical materialism is meant to provide both a general world view and a specific method for the investigation of scientific problems. |
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http://www.bartleby.com/65/di/dialcti-mat.html
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| | Marx/Engels on Historical Materialism |
| | From this point of view, the final causes of all social changes and political revolutions are to be sought, not in men's brains, not in men's better insights into eternal truth and justice, but in changes in the modes of production and exchange. | | | All previous historical movements were movements of minorities, or in the interest of minorities. | | | They themselves begin to distinguish themselves from animals as soon as they begin to produce their means of subsistence, a step which is conditioned by their physical organisation. |
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| | Historical Materialism |
| | material economic forces) cannot be taken literally as a causal claim. | | | At a certain stage of their development, the material productive forces of society come in conflict with the existing relations of production... | | | So, Historical Materialism (the claim that history is moved by |
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http://spruce.flint.umich.edu/~simoncu/485/histmat.htm
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| | Historical Materialism: From Marx to Gramsci |
| | For Gramsci, popular common sense could become a ground of struggle because it is not univocal and coherent, but an amalgam of historically effective ideologies, scientific doctrines and social mythologies. | | | On this view, commodification of social life, and especially commodification of labor, are not natural, necessary, universal or absolute; nor, therefore, is the separation of the political from the economic which is entailed in the capitalist wage relation. | | | To me, the primary significance of historical materialism is that it offers critical resources for the de-reification of capitalism and its various forms of appearance (Rupert, 1995a: chapter 2). |
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http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/maxpages/faculty/merupert/Teaching/MarxGram.htm
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| | Amazon.com: Democracy against Capitalism : Renewing Historical Materialism: Books |
| | In this book she sets out to renew the critical program of historical materialism by redefining its basic concepts and its theory of history in original and imaginative ways, using them to identify the specificity of capitalism as a system of social relations and political power. | | | The original intention of historical materialism was to provide a theoretical foundation for interpreting the world in order to change it. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0521476828?v=glance
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| | Ad for historical materialism |
| | HISTORICAL MATERIALISM is a new journal which seeks to play a part in the recovery and renewal of the critical and explanatory potential of classical Marxism. | | | Card Number ____ ____ ____ ____ Expiry Date ____ | | | For annual subscription (two issues), send cheque or international money order payable to 'Historical Materialism' at the below address. |
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| | Historical Materialism |
| | Material view of world looks at property as the base of economy | | | History is the history of class struggle, and, because built around the conditions for reproducing material life (i.e. | | | historical development (class struggle, class consciousness central to Marxist history) |
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http://www.csulb.edu/~ssayeghc/theory/lec9.htm
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| | Marxists Internet Archive |
| | All material within these Archives, unless noted otherwise, is public domain. | | | Please use a marxists.org server close to where you are: Asia | | | MIA-created material is protected by the Creative Commons License. |
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| | WWW-VL History Index |
| | Structuring Roman History: the Consular Year and the Roman Historical Tradition | | | An Interdisciplinary Journal of Historical Inquiry and Debate | | | Oswald Spengler, From The Decline of the West, Vol. |
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| | low culture |
| | I've been revising my musical revue of historical materialism ("Sing, Sang, Materialistische GeschichtsauffasSung!"), so my thoughts are a bit scattered at the moment, but I think the entire leak investigation can be read as a critique of the Annales school's perversion of Marxist historiography. |
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