ANTH 410 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Dialectical Materialism, For Marx, Dialectic
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Marx and engels utilize a dialectical approach (a discourse between two or more people. Anthropologists like it because it"s the utilization of a dichotomy or oppositional forces (structural dichotomies), good portion of utilization is playing with words. See town and country in usa in a lot of ways now (conflict between blue democrats in city" and red republicans in country" and how they regard each other) Marx and engels play out these dichotomies dialectically in this article and is a metaphor for how they see history change. Look for dialectical approach to know if something"s marxist. Marx and engels mainly do this through economics and industry, spending much of the article laying out how they attribute all of human. Use phrase real or tangible when describing the physical world a materialist perspective is concerned with. Marx and engels create their view of the world from the ground real" up, rather than the top consciousness" maybe or superstructure" in marxism, down.
