![]() ![]() It was Marx who showed us how and why primitive communalist society changed to slave societies and how feudalism grew out of slavery and capitalism out of feudalism. And by applying this dialectic to human society, i.e., Historical Materialism, we come to understand that ultimately the most critical and defining aspect of any society is the mode of production, how that society gets its food, clothing and shelter society’s raison d’etre and its reasons for changing became crystal clear. A way which reflected the actual development of nature. With his dialectic, Marx had achieved a methodology that could speak of real development in a clear, comprehensive and accurate way. ![]() In essence this is just a defense of religion. This was a direct refutation to philosophical idealism which posits just the opposite, that principal is ideas and that the material world is just a reflection of those ideas. That matter is principal and that ideas are a reflection of matter. Marx’s philosophy was materialism, that what was fundamental and essential in the world was its materiality. With Marx and Frederick Engels’ development of Dialectical and Historical Materialism the first wholly scientific analysis of capitalism and an alternative to it was put forth. There were many other attempts before Marx’s to propose an alternative to capitalist society, because although capitalism as it first emerged was progressive in as far as it had to eliminate feudalism and many forms of absolutism, it was not long before it became obvious that capitalism itself was exploitative and oppressive, and finally the major obstruction in the path of human development.īut the earlier proposals for alternative social systems to capitalism were Utopian, nonscientific. ![]() Karl Marx is honored by those who understand his contributions to human progress because he made the first wholly scientific analysis of capitalism and also put forward a scientific method for destroying it. (The following paper was delivered at a forum held at State University of New York Stony Brook.) Please credit the Encyclopedia of Anti-Revisionism On-Line as your source, include the url to this work, and note any of the transcribers, editors & proofreaders above. You can freely copy, distribute and display this work as well as make derivative and commercial works. Transcription, Editing and Markup: Paul SabaĬopyright: This work is in the Public Domain under the Creative Commons Common Deed. Marxist-Leninist Revolutionary Theory Encyclopedia of Anti-Revisionism On-LineĪmiri Baraka Marxist-Leninist Revolutionary Theory: Its Relation and Application to the Third World and African Americansįirst Published: The Black Nation, Vol. ![]()
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