Marxism

Marxism

Marxism is both a philosophy of science (dialectical materialism) and a theory of history (historical materialism). Marxism seeks to explain human social evolution by identifying a causal process that is internal to history and is focused on the transformational changes occurring in the most advanced and dynamic societies within a given mode of production. The mode of production refers to the set of property relations (e.g., feudalism or capitalism) within a given historical period that ultimately shape the legal and political superstructure as well as individual and collective consciousness (Levine, 2003). Put schematically, history can be understood as a progression from ...