Historical and dialectical materialism: contributions to the production of knowledge

Abstract

Karl Marx (1818-1883) and Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) created the philosophical conception of historical and dialectical materialism with a deep and critical theoretical and methodological perspective to understand the dynamics of reality. In this sense, the objective of this research is to understand the great transmutations of the historical processes of humanity. It is a bibliographical and documentary research. An electronic survey of articles, dissertations and theses was conducted in the SCIELO database and in the CAPES journal portal. Historical and dialectical materialism, from the methodological and educational point of view, seeks to understand the social production of the real and existence of humanity. At the same time, this method relates to various forms and modes of movement. In conclusion, it is believed that the method of historical and dialectical materialism is a kind of methodological skeleton more suitable for discussions about work and the metamorphoses of social phenomena, as well as for the conceptions of world and reality. The understanding of the real is not restricted to everything that is immediately given, observed, thought, perceived or felt.