Historical Materialism

[PeacefulRevolution]

Will someone please explain to me the theory of Historical Materialism?

[mikelepore]

On my site I copied fifteen quotations from Marx and Engels that I thought looked like definitions or summaries:

http://deleonism.org/materialist-conception-of-history.htm

[Broletariat]

Here's some good essays on the subject that I found helpful

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/smith-cyril/works/articles/cyril_01.htm

http://marxmyths.org/peter-stillman/article.htm