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The 87 pages that link to Historical materialism, each with the reason it gives.

• Karl MarxRelated: It frames Marx’s account of social change around the organization of production.

• MarxismRelated: It supplies Marxism’s framework for explaining how economic arrangements shape societies.

• Chinese historiographyCompared with: Its adoption in modern China redirected historical explanation toward social structure and economic change.

• Marxism–LeninismRelated: It supplies the framework Marxist–Leninist accounts use to interpret social change.

• Max WeberCompared with: Weber’s multicausal explanations challenged accounts that made material conditions the primary historical force.

• Friedrich EngelsRelated: Engels helped formulate this account of how economic structures shape historical change.

• World-systems theoryRelated: It provides a major intellectual backdrop for analyzing capitalism as a historical system.

• CommunismRelated: It supplies Marxism’s account of how societies could move toward communism.

• State formationCompared with: It foregrounds economic relations and class conflict in explanations of state development.

• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelCompared with: Marx recasts Hegelian development around material conditions rather than the development of spirit.

• EssentialismCompared with: It locates group relations in changing historical conditions rather than timeless group character.

• Antonio GramsciNarrower topic: Gramsci reshaped this Marxist approach by examining culture and political organization alongside economic structure.

• Marxist historiographyNarrower topic: It supplies the broad explanatory framework Marxist historians apply to particular societies and periods.

• The Communist ManifestoRelated: It supplies the pamphlet’s framework for connecting economic structures to political change.

• Environmental determinismCompared with: It locates historical causes in economic and social relations rather than physical environment alone.

• Walter BenjaminRelated: Benjamin recast this method as attention to suppressed pasts and ruptures in progress.

• MaterialismBroader topic: It applies materialist explanation to societies and their histories.

• Cultural materialismRelated: Harris adapted materialist explanations of society while developing a distinct anthropological method.

• DialecticRelated: Marxist dialectics informed its account of conflict and transformation in human societies.

• Marxian economicsNarrower topic: It supplies the broader account of social change within which Marx analyzes capitalism.

• Historical causationCompared with: It offers a structural account of causation grounded in economic relations.

• Dialectical materialismRelated: It applies materialist analysis specifically to human history and society.

• Economic determinismRelated: Economic determinism is often treated as a strong reading of historical materialism.

• Historical contextRelated: It offers a distinctive account of which contextual forces drive historical change.

• Means of productionRelated: It treats control of productive resources as a force shaping social and political life.

• Historical determinismRelated: Its account of material conditions is often interpreted as a form of historical determinism.

• Mode of productionNarrower topic: Modes of production are the central historical units in this approach.

• CivilizationRelated: It interprets the emergence of complex societies through economic organization and class relations.

• Louis AlthusserNarrower topic: Althusser recast this Marxist framework as a structured process rather than a simple sequence of economic causes.

• Ludwig FeuerbachRelated: Marx’s departure from Feuerbach helped shape this account of society and history.

• RevisionismRelated: Revisionists reinterpreted its predictions about capitalism and socialism.

• Universal historyRelated: It offers a systematic account of broad historical change centered on production and class.

• E. P. ThompsonRelated: Thompson reworked this Marxist tradition while resisting economic determinism.

• Historical sociologyRelated: It offers a major framework for connecting economic relations to historical transformations.

• Progressive historiographyCompared with: It offers a more systematic economic framework than the varied interpretations grouped as progressive historiography.

• Vietnamese historiographyRelated: Marxist frameworks strongly shaped official historical interpretation in twentieth-century Vietnam.

• Analytical MarxismNarrower topic: Cohen’s influential reconstruction made this Marxist theory of history a central test case.

• Dynastic cycleCompared with: It emphasizes economic structures and class struggle rather than recurring dynastic legitimacy.

• Moral progressRelated: It offers a structural account of change that need not begin with moral enlightenment.

• Philosophy of historyBroader topic: It offers a systematic account of the forces driving historical change.

• Vissarion BelinskyCompared with: Belinsky’s historical criticism anticipated social readings of literature but was not Marxist historical materialism.

• Great man theoryCompared with: It offers a structural explanation of change that competes with individual-centered history.

• Base and superstructureNarrower topic: The base-and-superstructure model is a prominent formulation within this broader approach.

• José Carlos MariáteguiRelated: It shaped his account of how Peru’s economy and social hierarchy developed.

• Longue duréeRelated: Both approaches stress structures, but historical materialism gives class and production a distinct explanatory role.

• Charles A. BeardRelated: It offers a related framework, though Beard was not simply applying Marxist theory.

• E. H. CarrRelated: Marxist analysis informed Carr’s accounts of revolutionary change and Soviet development.

• Houston Stewart ChamberlainCompared with: It explains historical change through economic and social structures, unlike Chamberlain’s racial account.

• Karl KautskyNarrower topic: Kautsky treated historical materialism as the basis for understanding socialism’s development.

• French historiographyCompared with: It offered French historians a powerful alternative to histories centered on political institutions and great figures.