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What is the Dialectical Materialist Ontology?

Originally published: Midwestern Marx on March 19, 2024 by Carlos L. Garrido (more by Midwestern Marx) | (Posted Mar 22, 2024)

Objective dialectics, i.e., the dialectical materialist ontology, first and foremost holds that the world is dominated by change and interconnection, “nothing is eternal but eternally changing.”
Richard Lewontin, dialectical materialism, the relationship between evolutionary biology and Marxism

Originally published: Science for the People on November 3, 2021 by Erik Svensson (more by Science for the People) | (Posted Nov 04, 2021)

Dialectical materialism combines two philosophical traditions: historical materialism formulated by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, and dialectics, an idealist philosophy formulated by German philosopher Georg Willhelm Friedrich Hegel.