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historical materialism


historical materialism

noun

Definition of HISTORICAL MATERIALISM

: the Marxist theory of history and society that holds that ideas and social institutions develop only as the superstructure of a material economic base — compare dialectical materialism

First Known Use of HISTORICAL MATERIALISM

1925

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