Both these philosophers believed that mind is as real as matter, but they were materialists in the sense that they were not idealists.ĭialectical materialists argue that the laws that govern matter are not mechanistic, but are dialectical.
This explains how maxist historians of philosophy can say that Locke and Spinoza were materialists. Rather, they are concerned to oppose idealism : in their view, matter is not a product of mind, but mind is the highest product of matter. Though Marx borrowed this method primarily from Hegel, he turned Hegelian. Later on, Engels in his Anti-Duhring elaborated and presented it as philosophy. It was first coined by Plekhanov in 1891. The seeds of Marx’s theory of history were present in the Manuscripts of 1844, but achieved their final form after research into the science of political economy in polemical writings such as the Communist Manifesto (1848) and The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte 5. Dialectical Materialism represents the philosophical system of Marx. In asserting of matter, dialectical materialists do not advance a reductive theory they do not assert that everything that exists is nothing but matter. We shall see this dialectic as having influenced Karl Marx’s philosophy. As such, it is distinguished from historical materialism, which is the marxist theory of history, dealing with thre more particular laws governing the development of human society and thought. It asserts that matter is primary or fundamental, and states general laws governing the motion and development of all matter.
State intervention is non-negotiable in essential services to mitigate the purchasing power of wages and salaries in the inflationary trend, which has soared continuously in Nigeria for decades.The dialectical materialism is a metahysical doctrine held by many marxists. Notwithstanding the inevitability of capitalism and attendant consequences of poverty and socio-economic pressure in Nigeria, it is recommended that public-private partnership should be continuum in the provision of essential services which consumption and demand is inelastic. It is nearly 175 years since Karl Marx 1818-1883 predicted the demise of Capitalism as an economic arrangement that thrived on exploitation of labour, and was prone to excessive production of goods and services due to Capitalist greed and. During the almost forty years of our life together she remained an inexhaustible source of love, magnanimity, and. Letter to his wife, Natalia Sedova In addition to the happiness of being a fighter for the cause of socialism, fate gave me the happiness of being her husband.
Nigeria State therefore reproduced capitalism and ideological repression of wage/salary workers and the masses. Quotes tagged as 'dialectical-materialism' Showing 1-24 of 24.
KARL MARX DIALECTIC MATERIALISM FULL
The conclusion of the paper is that Nigeria is in the full blown capitalism epoch and state policies have thrived the epoch. The paper submitted that Nigeria political economy history is a reflection of evidence in Karl Marx especially the periods that spanned pre-colonial, colonial and post colonial independence era. In place of the passive contemplation of the object which constitutes, for materialism, the commencement of the epistemological enterprise, the young Marx, following Feuerbachs revisionist program, substituted the dialectic of human sensuous activity. This paper is an exposition of Karl Marx's political economy to review the philosophical scientific explanation of historical materialism and relevance in the context of Nigeria. The Dialectics of Theory & Practice Dialectical materialism assumes that our understanding of reality is never perfect or complete.
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