Dialectical materialism
Dialectical materialism, diamat - the philosophical direction initiated in the second half. By Karl Marx and Fryderyk Engels, then developed by W. Lenin, Lev Trotsky and Rose Luxemburg. In the 20th century it became the philosophical basis of Stalinism, Trotskyism and Maoism. This direction is the merger and synthesis of earlier streams of materialism, certain elements of Darwinism, positivism, naturism, and hegemony. An essential characteristic distinguishing Marxism from other types of materialism is the assumption that one of the inalienable features of matter is its evolutionary and dialectical nature. The "diamat" is a shortened form of Russian origin, used in the 1950s. As the philosophical foundation of Marxism, he has played and continues to play a significant role in history as a part of the official state ideology of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, China, Cuba, North Korea, Vietnam and generally the whole of the communist movement and some of the more moderate leftist movements in the world.