what is dialectic materialism.......marx?

Answer 1

It was Engels, not Marx, who coined the phrase. It's a way of viewing the world, that matter and energy in all things and all processes on all levels are dynamic (have movement), and that movement occurs in universal cycles:

"It is an eternal cycle in which matter moves, a cycle that certainly only completes its orbit in periods of time for which our terrestrial year is no adequate measure, a cycle in which the time of highest development, the time of organic life and still more that of the life of being conscious of nature and of themselves, is just as narrowly restricted as the space in which life and self-consciousness come into operation. A cycle in which every finite mode of existence of matter, whether it be sun or nebular vapour, single animal or genus of animals, chemical combination or dissociation, is equally transient, and wherein nothing is eternal but eternally changing, eternally moving matter and the laws according to which it moves and changes." Engels

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Answer 2

Definition Of Dialectical Materialism

Answer 3

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Actually in dialectic materialism -- Materialism asserts the primacy of the material world: in short, matter precedes thought. Additionally, materialism holds that the world is material; that all phenomena in the universe consist of "matter in motion

According to many followers of the theories of Karl Marx (or Marxists), dialectical materialism is the philosophical basis of Marxism. The name, which was never used by Marx himself, refers to the notion that Marxism is a synthesis of philosophical dialectics and materialism.

It is sometimes seen as the complement of historical materialism (or the "materialist conception of history") which is the name given to Marx's methodology in the study of society, economics and history.

Dialectical materialism is often defined by reference to two claims by Marx: first that he "put Hegel's dialectics back on its feet" and second, that "the history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles." (The Communist Manifesto, 1848). Dialectical materialism is essentially characterized by the belief that history is the product of class struggle and obeys the general Hegelian principle of philosophy of history, that is the development of the thesis into its antithesis which is sublated by the "Aufhebung" (~ synthesis, a word that Hegel didn't like to use) — which conserves the thesis and the antithesis while at the same time abolishing it (Aufheben — this contradiction explains the difficulties of Hegel's thought).

The term dialectical materialism was probably invented in 1887 by Joseph Dietzgen, a socialist tanner who corresponded with Marx

Answer 4

'materialism' referd to marx's view that the world of facts comes before the world of ideas: consider this in opposition to Hegel's idealism.

the 'dialectical' part is more difficult. this has its origins in the Socratic method of responding to statements with questions to highlligh their inconsistencies, etc, and refers to how contradictions can resolve themselves into new forms: thesis + antithesis = synthesis is how this is often explained, but this is an oversimplication and somewhat misses the point. wikipedia has a good article on this