dialectical materialism in English

noun
1
the Marxist theory (adopted as the official philosophy of the Soviet communists) that political and historical events result from the conflict of social forces and are interpretable as a series of contradictions and their solutions. The conflict is believed to be caused by material needs.
Marx wants to combine the active, dialectical side of idealist thought with the materialism of Feuerbach: hence dialectical materialism as later Marxists called it (though Marx himself never used this phrase).

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1. In the course of the discussion, we impinged on a theoretical problem of dialectical materialism.

2. 12 Mao Zedong carried on and developed the principle that substances are infinitely dividable, which is a part of dialectical materialism.

3. It is impossible to conceive of dialectical materialism without atheism[sentencedict .com], and it is this which underlies Marxism as an ideology.

4. 15 He takes philosophy of dialectical materialism as his guidance and persists in analyzing and researching on psychological phenomena with dialectic and systematology.

5. In interpreting possibility and Actuality as correlative concepts expressing the fundamental phases of motion and the development of being, dialectical materialism considers possibility as a less rich and concrete concept than Actuality in the broad sense—that is, the objective world as a whole with its essential variety, including opposing tendencies.