Historical Materialism

by V.G. Afanasyev

An introduction to the mode of production, explains a social order's base and superstructure, people as decisive in social development, classes and class struggle, the state, revolutionary change, social consciousness.

Genres: Philosophy

218 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1987

Reviews

[kz · Rating 4 out of 5]

Although I feel like this short 180 page book got dogmatic at times, it provides a good summary of what Historical Materialism is and how it’s been used through out history to effect changes throughout society. This book also gives a rundown of the USSR’s social policies and public moralities concerning religion, art, and science and how they contrast with bourgeois democratic countries social policies and public moralities on the same topics.

[Steve · Rating 1 out of 5]

Soviet diamat crap.