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[114] Caren: Marx's dialectic was materialist! Marx's study of capitalism was grounded in a philosophy that was both
dialectical and materialist. With dialectics, the changes and
interactions that anything undergoes are brought into focus and
emphasized and special attention is devoted to whatever patterns emerge.
This method enabled Marx to keep in view both the broader interactions
that made up the whole and the past and future development of present
phenomena.
From my point of view, Marx's dialectic was materialist. Marx was
primarily concerned with capitalism as lived rather that as thought
about, but people's lives also involve consciousness. Marx's materialism
puts ideas back into the heads of living people and treats both as parts
of a world that is forever being remade through human activities,
particularly in production. In this dialectical process, ideas also
affect the social conditions and behavior that more generally shape them.
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