Marx's Historical Materialism

Question 1

What is historical materialism?

Answer 1

The theory relates all institutions of human society (e.g., government and religion), human developments, and human history to economic activity

Question 2

Marx’s quotes on the cycle of historical materialism

Answer 2

‘The history of all society up to now is the history of class struggles’.

Each struggle ends with a ‘revolutionary transformation of society’.

The Communist Manifesto, 1848