dialectical materialism

English

Etymology

Calque of German dialektischer Materialismus, coined by Joseph Dietzgen in Streifzüge eines Sozialisten in das Gebiet der Erkenntnißtheorie [1887].

Noun

dialectical materialism (uncountable)

1. (philosophy) The concept of reality in which material things are in the constant process of change brought about by the tension between conflicting or interacting forces, elements, or ideas.

   Synonym: (shortening) diamat

   • 1906 [1887], Joseph Dietzgen, “Streifzüge eines Sozialisten in das Gebiet der Erkenntnißtheorie [Excursions of a Socialist into the Domain of Epistemology]”, in Max Beer & Theodor Rothstein, transl., edited by Eugene Dietzgen & Joseph Dietzgen Jr., Some of the Philosophical Essays by Joseph Dietzgen‎^[1]:

     Because the idealist perversity in its last representatives, namely Kant, Fichte, Schelling and Hegel, was thoroughly German, its issue, dialectical materialism, is also a pre-eminently German product.

Translations

branch of philosophy

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 唯物辯證法／唯物辩证法 (wéiwù biànzhèngfǎ), 辯證唯物主義／辩证唯物主义 (zh) (biànzhèng wéiwùzhǔyì), 辯證唯物論／辩证唯物论 (biànzhèng wéiwùlùn)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: dialectisch materialisme n
• Esperanto: dialektika materiismo
• Finnish: dialektinen materialismi
• French: matérialisme dialectique m
• German: dialektischer Materialismus m
• Greek: διαλεκτικός υλισμός m (dialektikós ylismós)
• Hungarian: dialektikus materializmus
• Indonesian: materialisme dialektis
• Italian: materialismo dialettico m
• Japanese: 唯物弁証法 (ja) (ゆいぶつべんしょうほう, yuibutsu benshōhō), 弁証法的唯物論 (ja) (べんしょうほうてきゆいぶつろん, benshōhōteki yuibutsuron)
• Malayalam: വൈരുദ്ധ്യാധിഷ്ഠിത ഭൗതികവാദം (vairuddhyādhiṣṭhita bhautikavādaṁ)
• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: materializm dialektyczny m
• Portuguese: materialismo dialético (pt) m
• Romanian: materialism dialectic (ro) n
• Russian: диалекти́ческий материали́зм (ru) m (dialektíčeskij materialízm), диама́т (ru) m (diamát)
• Slovene: dialektični materializem m
• Spanish: materialismo dialéctico m
• Tagalog: materyalismong diyalektiko
• Turkish: diyalektik materyalizm
• Ukrainian: діалекти́чний матеріалі́зм m (dialektýčnyj materialízm)
• Vietnamese: chủ nghĩa duy vật biện chứng, phương pháp duy vật biện chứng