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Dialectical Materialism is an idea put forth by Marx and Engles, the creators of the Communist Manifesto. It states that great political change can only happen as a result of massive bloodshed and conflict. It is what makes communism the social application of the theory of evolution.
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Dialectical Materialism is an idea put forth by [[Karl Marx|Marx]] and [[Friedrich Engels|Engels]], the creators of the [[Communist Manifesto]]. It states all economic and political change comes from the conflict between two diametrically opposed economic and social classes (the "thesis" and "antithesis"). The resolution to this conflict leads to a new consensus, distinct from the original ideas (the "synthesis")  It is derived from the theories of [[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel|Hegel]].
 
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Dialectical Materialism is an idea put forth by Marx and Engels, the creators of the Communist Manifesto. It states all economic and political change comes from the conflict between two diametrically opposed economic and social classes (the "thesis" and "antithesis"). The resolution to this conflict leads to a new consensus, distinct from the original ideas (the "synthesis") It is derived from the theories of Hegel.