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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024histor′ical mate′rialism, - Government, Philosophy(in Marxist theory) the doctrine that all forms of social thought, as art or philosophy, and institutions, as the family or the state, develop as a superstructure founded on an economic base;
that they reflect the character of economic relations and are altered or modified as a result of class struggles;
that each ruling economic class produces the class that will destroy or replace it;
and that dialectical necessity requires the eventual withering away of the state and the establishment of a classless society: the body of theory, in dialectical materialism, dealing with historical process and social causation. Cf. economic determinism.
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