Economic Determinism

When Karl Marx's and Friedrich Engels' created the ideology of Communism, many Marxists believe they inductively surmised what they saw as a law of history, an 'inexorable law', that ran throughout the course of history. Marx and Engels are also said to have believed that, by tracing this law through history, they could predict with positive assurance the pattern of man's progress in the future.

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Karl Marx's - Friedrich Engels' - Communism - Law

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The law of 'economic determinism' attributed to Marx is simple: self-preservation is the supreme instinct in man, and therefore the whole pattern of human conduct must always have been governed by the fundamental laws governing survival, a dialectual process between man and nature (see co-evolution). This reasoning leads to the conclusion that all elements of historical consequence result from 'economic determinism', or man's effort to survive.

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Economic - Determinism - Self-preservation - Dialectual - Co-evolution

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