Źródła teorii historyzmu materialistycznego

Abstract

Materialistic historism is for Lenin a term denoting the materialistic — dialectical „theory of a social science method". It is a method of scientific sociology based on the assumption that in order to describe the structure, functioning and changes occuring in a given society one should grasp them from the point of view of: 1) internal structure of particular organic units and relations existing between these units within the society as a whole, i.e. between the state, law, classes, economy, religion, family, art, science,, etc.; 2) processes of emergence, reproduction, development and disappearance of particular features of elements and relations in the structure of these units; 3) conditioning of the totality of social structures and the totality of relations existing in a given society by the economic structure of that society; 4) discovering the regularities of functioning and changes in social structures, determined as contradictions between social actions and processes.