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Feb 2022
38m 22s

Dialectics: From Hegel To Marx

Revolutionary Communist Party
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was one of the greatest minds that humanity has ever known. His development of the dialectic, placed on a materialist basis by Marx, provides key insights into the logic of all change, development and transformation in nature, society and the human mind. Want to learn more about the history of philosophy, including how Marx dev ... Show More
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