Lec 37: Laws of Dialectical Materialism

In this lecture we will study about
1. Laws of Dialectical Materialism as summarised by Friedrich Engels namely Law of Union and Conflict of Opposites, Law of Quantitative Change and Qualitative Change and Law of negation of negation.
2. Dialectical Materialism as conceptualised by Karl Marx which is in direct opposition to Hegel's concept of Dialectical Idealism.
3. Forces of production and Production relations which form the economic base which Marx terms as infrastructure influencing the superstructure comprising of various social institutions like Religion, Family, Education, State etc.
4. We will also study about Modes of Production as History progresses through 5 Modes of production namely Primitive Communism, Ancient or Slave Mode of Production, Feudal, Capitalist Mode of production and ultimately the Communist Mode of Production.
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