Etymology

dialectical materialism

Today it means: The concept of reality in which material things are in the constant process of change brought about by the tension between conflicting or interacting forces, elements, or ideas. Full definition →

German dialektischer Materialismus
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  1. German · calque ofdialektischer Materialismus
  2. English todaydialectical materialism

Calque of German dialektischer Materialismus, coined by Joseph Dietzgen in Streifzüge eines Sozialisten in das Gebiet der Erkenntnißtheorie [1887].

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