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Marx and Historical Materialism.
Title: Marx and Historical Materialism.
Category: Social Sciences / Politics
Details: Words: 969 | Pages: 4.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
Marx and Historical Materialism.
Historical materialism explains the possibility of transcending capitalist society at the hands of the working class through the belief that the capitalist society's means of production are outgrowing its relations to production.
The nature of work poses the universal assumption that humans must work to survive and will do so through the easiest, most efficient means possible. Thus, a division of labour will result alongside with the production of a surplus due to the search …showed first 75 words of 969 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 969 total…consistently inflicts. The working class will not be pushed to act because the unbearableness of capitalism is demonstrated to them from the outside, but because they feel it generated within them.
In the end, historical materialists believe that the working class will eventually overtake the means of production and therefore transform themselves to the ruling class where the tools of production designed by humans will finally be used for the benefit of all of humanity.
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