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THE DIALECTICAL MATERIALISM

MATERIALIST DIALECTICS Marx and Engels set Hegelian dialectics aright and put it on a materialist basis as partly indicated by feuerbach. The result is an original and epoch making advance in philosophy. Hegelian Dialectics states that development is first of all the self development of before it is realised in material world. Hegel, Marx-Engels  Feuerbach correctly pointed out that ideas are merely the sensuous reflection of the material world in human perception. He fell short of Marxist comprehension of endless interaction between cognition, reality and capability of man for critical revolutionary activity. Marx and Engels stated that change is an endless process because anything at any stage always consists of contradictory aspects. Materialist dialectics or the law of contradiction is the law of motion inherent in matter; springs from the differences and interaction of things and operates in a two way interaction of matter and consciousness. In the philosophical works of Marx ...