Author

"Dogmatist"

Title

The materialist conception of history, an introduction to its study

Imprint

Socialist Federation of Australasia, Melbourne, 1910, 84 pp

Abstract

This monograph was published by the Socialist Federation of Australasia out of a series of articles published in the Melbourne Socialist. It presents and argues for a Marxist conception of history. In his introduction Bob Ross claimed that "no book of any worth or weight in harmony with Marxian philosophy has hitherto been published in Australia!".

The contents are as follows:
The development of the technique;
Technique and social development;
Economic determinism;
Social pyschology;
The state;
Civilisation;
The material conception;
Philosophy;
The principles of socialism;
Vexed differences made plain;
Conclusion.

Related entries

Subjects

• Historical Materialism
• Marxism
• Socialism - 1900 to 1919

See also

• Ross, Robert Samuel (1873 - 1931)
• Social Democratic Federation of Australasia (1892 - )

Related Published resources

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• "Dogmatist", 'The coming of socialism affirmed', in The materialist conception of history, an introduction to its study, Socialist Federation of Australasia, Melbourne, 1910. Image PDF Transcript HTML Transcript PDF Details