dialectical materialism


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
dialectical materialism
noun the Marxist theory that political and historical events result from the conflict of social forces (as caused by material needs) and are interpretable as a series of contradictions and their solutions.
– derivatives
dialectical materialist noun & adjective.
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