Marxist Dialectics, Pt 1: Basic Dialectics and Historical Materialism
Channel: Communism and Dialectical Materialism
Date: 2020-05-15

Lecture 1 of Series of 3 on Marxist Dialectics by Thomas Weston, Presented at Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Tijuana, Mexico, April 8, 2019. This part outlines Marx's ideas on dialectics and applies it to his base and superstructure model of historical change. Describes controversies about and misunderstandings of Marx's theory of revolutionary change.