DIALECTIC MATERIALISM (9)

official philosophy of communism, based on the works of Karl Marx (1818–1883), German revolutionary leader and founder of modern socialism, and on the ideas originated by the German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Hegel (1770–1831); specifically, in logic, "dialectic" is the action and reaction between opposites, out of which a new synthesis (harmony of the two opposites) emerges. "Materialism" is a philosophy which maintains that there is nothing in the universe but matter, that mind is a phenomenon of matter, and that there is no ground for assuming a spiritual first cause. Marx held that a conflict of opposites in human society is the evolutionary process by which a classless society would eventually be reached. —FEBC - PR Becomes a Subject Approved Glossary