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historical materialism  

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  • Historical materialism (aka. histomat) is the metatheory of societal development that undergirds the Marxist “research programme” on the genesis, structure, and change of social formations, from primitive communism to the advanced communist society of the future. [Source: Encyclopedia of Social Theory; Historical Materialism]

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