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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.

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

• 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.

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

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

• 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.

• 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.

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

• 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.

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

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

• 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.

• Georgi PlekhanovRelated: Plekhanov made this account of historical development central to his Marxist writings.

• Western MarxismRelated: Western Marxists reinterpret how material conditions shape politics and culture.

• Vernon Louis ParringtonRelated: Parrington’s attention to economic interests resembles materialist explanations of intellectual change.

• Werner SombartRelated: Its focus on economic structures informed Sombart’s historical explanations.

• Eduardo GaleanoRelated: This framework helps situate Galeano’s focus on economic power and historical inequality.

• Anti-revisionismRelated: Disputes over its interpretation shape arguments about what counts as a Marxist departure.

• Sociocultural evolutionRelated: It offers a distinct account of large-scale change centered on economic structures.

• Criticism of MarxismRelated: Critics question its explanatory reach and whether it makes history economically deterministic.

• Das KapitalRelated: The book applies this approach to capitalism’s emergence and development.

• History (past events)Related: It makes economic structures and class relations central to historical explanation.

• Scientific communismRelated: It supplies the theory of historical development underlying scientific communism.