Historical Materialism Quotes

Historical Materialism Quote of the day

Let us not forget that revolutions are accomplished through people, although they be nameless. Materialism does not ignore the feeling, thinking, and acting man, but explains him.

Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.

History is not like some individual person, which uses men to achieve its ends. History is nothing but the actions of men in pursuit of their ends.

According to the materialist conception of history, the ultimately determining element in history is the production and reproduction of real life.

Technologies that change society are technologies that change interactions between people

Historical materialism has every reason to distinguish itself sharply from bourgeois habits of thought. Its founding concept is not progress but actualization.