Practice question · Sort into groups
Sort each verdict on historical materialism: what survives or what fails?
Groups: What survives · What fails
- Material conditions and class as permanent parts of explanation
- The stage sequence as a prediction of where revolution comes
- Treating religion and nationalism as mere reflections of the base
- Asking whose interests an "obvious" idea serves
Hints
- The questions survived; the predictive laws did not.
- Ask whether the item is a lasting method or a failed forecast.
Show the answer
What survives: Material conditions and class as permanent parts of explanation, Asking whose interests an "obvious" idea serves
What fails: The stage sequence as a prediction of where revolution comes, Treating religion and nationalism as mere reflections of the base
Why
The questions survived; the laws did not. That is the honest ledger, and it is why historians who reject every one of Marx’s answers still ask several of his questions before lunch.
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