Neo-evolutionism, neo-materialism - Historical Materialism
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What did historical materialists tried to explain?
Tried to explain change, taking the material basis of societies as their starting point. They tried to show the relations between material basis (ecosystem included), social structure and ideology.
They adopted the idea of Marxism, going from the material basis (wich included the ecosystem), via the social structure to ideology. What is the difference?
Most of them still did not refer explicitely to Marxism as a source of inspiration. They also built on neo-evolutionism, and some people would consider Morton Fried's The evoltion of political society an example of neo-evolutionism, rather that historical materialism.
Cultural materialism and historical materialism have quite similar ideas about the connections between the material basis, social structure and ideological superstructure. What is the major difference?
The major difference between cultural materialism and historical materialism, is that historical materialsim explicitly tires toe explain change and cultural materialism focuses on the maintenance of an equilibrium.
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