Dialectical materialism

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Dialectical materialism is a philosophy of nature and philosophy of science developed in the late 19th century, largely from the writings of Friedrich Engels. By synthesising Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's dialectic with philosophical materialism, it proposes that the world is material, that all phenomena are the result of matter in motion, and that the world's evolution is the product of a dialectical process driven by internal contradiction. It posits a set of general laws—most notably the transformation of quantity into quality, the interpenetration of opposites, and the negation of the negation—that are claimed to govern nature, society, and thought. The intellectual origins of dialectical materialism can be traced to 19th-century German idealism, particularly Hegel's theory of the dialectic as a logical process of development. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels inverted Hegel's idealist system, proposing that the dialectic was not a process of the "Concept" or "Idea" but of the real,...

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