What do we mean by Dialectic Materialism?
1) “Dialectical materialism originates from two major aspects of Marx’s philosophy. One is his transformation of Hegel’s idealistic understanding of dialectics into a materialist one, an act commonly said to have “put Hegel’s dialectics back on its feet”. Marx’s materialism developed through his engagement with Feuerbach. Marx sought to base human social organization within the context of the material reproduction of their daily lives, which he calls sensous practice in his early works (Marx 1844, 1845). From this material context men develop certain ideas about their world, thereby leading to the core materialist conception that social being determines social consciousness. The dialectical aspect retains the Hegelian method within this materialist framework, and emphasizes the process of historical change arising from contradiction and class struggle based in a particular social context. – Hegel: Dialectical materialism is essentially characterized by the thesis that history is the pr
