If you’ve never heard the term dialectical materialism, you’re far from alone. Dialectical materialism, or “diamat,” is a worldview and philosophy created by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. It is one ...

Beginning in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the term “wisdom” appeared very frequently in Soviet philosophy publications. It was used to better situate the doctrine of dialectical materialism within ...

Libertarian Marxism is a rather recent development, as far as political theories and movements go. I suppose that a truly dedicated historian could dig up the bones of various defunct political groups ...

For the most part, I’ve always been excited by the first day of school: new teachers, new friends (sometimes), and best of all, new stuff. The first day of school, much to my parents’ dread, meant new ...

Dialectic! What a powerful concept that explains everything and nothing at the same time in the Soviet reality. Any changes in the economic, social, foreign, or military policies of the Soviet Union ...

What is dialectical materialism, the method of argument so dear to the Communist heart? The anti-Communist magazine Tarantel in Berlin gave the answer in the form of an anecdote. A priest, it seems, ...

Dialectical Materialism and Psychoanalysis by W. Reich, Socialist Reproduction, 57d Jamestown Road, London NW1. 25p (postage included), April 1972. It is important to situate the text in the Germany ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping has stressed dialectical materialism as a way to deepen reform. Xi, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, made the remarks while ...

This is a translation and revision of a major philosophical study which has already appeared in Italian (1948) and German (1952) editions. After an extended historical introduction to Soviet Marxism, ...