Historical Materialism and Social Evolution
Contributors: Paul Blackledge (Editor); Graeme Kirkpatrick (Editor)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: January 3, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780333995624
Subjects: Marxism & Communism; Social theory; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; History & Theory - General; Political Ideologies - Communism & Socialism; Political Science / History & Theory; General; Communism and culture; Communism and society; Historical materialism; Human evolution; Social Darwinism
First sentence: At the funeral oration for his lifelong collaborator, Engels famously compared Marx's achievements to those of Darwin: 'As Darwin discovered the law of evolution of organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of evolution of human history'.