Historical materialism is an essential feature not only of the Marxism of the traditional workers movement but also of Marxist-Leninist ideas. A critique of historical materialism explains some of the ...

Originally published in 1983, the book has been translated by Alireza Khazai. What have been the major changes in the intellectual landscape of the left since the mid-seventies? Have they on balance ...

Karl Marx is widely regarded as one of the most sophisticated theorists of human history. Marx was above all a scientist. He used the term historical materialism to explain that it was the material ...

This is the text of a lecture delivered by David North, chairperson of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site and of the Socialist Equality Party (US), at the University of ...

Late last month the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) in Sri Lanka held a lecture titled “An introduction to historical materialism” at Peradeniya University in the city of ...

“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.” —Martin Luther King Jr. “Stumbling is not falling.” —Malcolm X “In contrast to idealism, whose problem is how to explain ...

The present little book is, originally, part of a larger whole. About 1875, Dr. E. Duhring, privatdocent [university lecturer who formerly received fees from his students rather than a wage] at Berlin ...