Historical Materialism?

[ComradeRed]

Would historical materialism be considered anthropology or sociology?

[ComradeRed]

Oh, and what good books are there on historical materialism???

[Louis Pio]

Well I would consider it marxism :D

You might find this introduction to Historical Materialism interesting.

What is Historical materialism? (http://www.marxist.com/Theory/study_guide2.html)

[Essential Insignificance]

Both; sociology materializing out of the study of anthropology.

Anthropology is commonly held to be the "study of man", but accurately more so, the study of primitive man, nowadays.

The general thesis of Historical Materialism is, most centrally, the manner to which society produces and reproduces its material means of existence and its tendency to grow; the primary determent of other features of society. And the definite progressions it under go's throughout history.

"Human beings distinguish themselves from animals as soon as they begin to produce there means of production"

Thus, it can assumed, that Historical Materialism develops from the foundations of anthropology.

As mankind’s productive methods develop, so does, the social relations of production, that correspond to the particular, mode's of production.

This is where, I think, sociology becomes the prominent and pertinent study of mankind and the relations that mankind enter into; under the control of the forces that they once controlled, analogous to each, specific, productive epoch.