Dialectical and Historical Materialism

Stalin's writing is divided into three parts, and very systematically presented:

A: outline of the Marxist dialectical method, in contrast to metaphysics

1. Nature is a unified whole
2. Nature is in perpetual motion
3. The development of nature is the transition of quantity into quality
4. Natural phenomena possess internal contradictions as part of their struggle, and cannot be reformist, but rather revolutionary

B: outline of the Marxist philosophical materialism in contrast to idealism

1. The world is materialistic in nature
2. Being is objective reality, thinking is a reflection of matter, contributing ideas back to being.
3. The knowledge of natural laws is examined by the practice, laws of social development, objective truth, analog biology, socialism is a science

C: Historical materialism

1. What is the "Chief Determinant Force" in society? The mode of production of material goods and not the geographical environment or the growth of the population.
2. The "real" party of the proletariat controls the laws of development of production
3. A schematic picture of the story:

A. Primitive communal / primitive communism

B. Slavery

C. Feudalism

D. Capitalism

E. Socialism (where evolution instead of revolution)

• Ideology of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

• Dialectical and Historical Materialism at marxists.org.