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Economic Dimension

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Hegel Doctrine of Dialectic

Dialectics explains the evolution of Reason in human mind. It is the mechanism


by which Reason or Idea propels itself and evolves. Embodying itself in human
institutions and systems of thought of a progressively evolving nature. The dialecting is
self-propelling because its idea contains in itself its own opposite and it is the nature of
idea or thought to seek reconciliation of opposites. This reconciliation is possible because
the contradiction between the opposites of an idea is never absolute.

Karl Marx’s Doctrine of Material Dialectic

Karl Marx developed his theory of materialistic interpretation of history in


opposition to Hegelian dialectic. The last and the easiest way are to understand Karl
Marx’s historical materialism by the side of the Hegelian dialectic and then note the
difference. The historical materialism in view of some writers is the special application of
Hegelian ideas to human affairs, adopted by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Karl Marx
and Engels took only thing from Hegel and that was the apparatus of the dialectic.

“The manifesto shows that human history since the creation of private property had
been history of class straggles, that is a conflict between Freemen verse Slaves and
of capitalist verse Labor”.
The theory of materialist or economic interpretation of history is based upon the
fact that a man must eat to live. He is moved to struggle and activity by his material
needs Ideas conceptions and consciousness and therefore politics, law, morality, religion
and metaphysics of a people emanate from their material activity and economic
relationship of men, they are to be sought not in the philosophy but in the economics of
the period concerned.
Karl Marx saw evolutionary changes in the economics, social, religious, and
political ideas and institutions of mankind. His conception of history is called
materialistic to be distinguished from the idealistic conception of history of Hegel.

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