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Historical materialism, a Rare card
Historical materialism is a theory of history and sociology in Marxist thought that posits that material and economic conditions are the primary drivers of societal structure and historical change.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 80
- DEF
- 100
- Power
- 180
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 210,000
Power 180 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 90 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- First articulated by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in the mid-19th century, the theory proposes that the mode of production of material life, the way a society produces and reproduces the means of human existence, determines or conditions its political, legal, and ideological "superstructure".
- Historical development is understood as a succession of modes of production, with transitions between them driven by contradictions that arise between the developing forces of production and the static relations of production.
- The materialist conception of history was developed by Marx as a critical response to German idealist philosophy, the ahistorical materialism of the Enlightenment, and the classical political economy of thinkers like Adam Smith and David Ricardo.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Historical materialism article was read about 210,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 80 and blocks with 100: each hit it takes is cut by 40 %.
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Text : Wikipedia, Historical materialism (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Goszei, CC0, Wikimedia Commons.



