Actualization Quote by Walter Benjamin

Historical capitalism is a materialist civilization.

— Immanuel Wallerstein

“According to the materialist conception of history, the ultimately determining element in history is the production and reproduction of real life.”

— Friedrich Engels

“Let us remember, for the progressive, historical progress is said to be a process of never-ending cultural and societal adjustments intended to address the…

— Mark R. Levin

Economy and ideology. The claim (presented as an essential postulate of historical materialism) that every fluctuation of politics and ideology can be presented and…

— Antonio Gramsci

The so-called 'materialistic conception of history,' with the crude elements of genius of the early form which appeared, for instance, in the 'Communist Manifesto,'…

— Max Weber

“The bourgeois period of history has to create the material basis of the new world — on the one hand universal intercourse founded upon…

— Karl Marx

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

— Christopher Hitchens

Let us not forget that revolutions are accomplished through people, although they be nameless. Materialism does not ignore the feeling, thinking, and acting man,…

— Leon Trotsky

“Materialism, it must be understood, is a premise of science, not a finding.”

— Gordon White

“Wasn't modernism's greatest coup to destroy the notion of progression? And yet it still comes back in history books, in dialectical materialism, in the…

— Chris Kraus

“The history of social, political and technological change is inextricably bound to the history of thought.”

— Philip Stokes

“Materialism—an attachment to physical goods beyond their practical value—was a trap; a chain to ensnare the foolish with their own greed.”

— Drew Karpyshyn