the dialectical or Socratic method of debate; the philosophical study of the general laws of motion, development, and change in things

Theory in Marxist philosophy that views the world as material and in a constant state of change through the struggle of opposites; the combination of materialism and dialectics.

A philosophical method developed by Marx and Engels describing the fundamental laws of nature, society, and thought, based on the idea that material reality develops through the unity of opposites.

Marxist dialectical method, which considers the world as a complex of processes and is used to analyze social development and natural phenomena