Definitions for "Dialectical Materialism"
the materialistic philosophy of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
in Hegelian and Marxist theory, the view that the world is a material process undergoing stages of unending change.
A form of materialism that sees matter not as something static, on which change and development have to be imposed, but as, containing within its own nature those tensions or "contradictions" that provide the motive force for change.