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The revolution which Marx and Engels carried out in the social sciences 21 consists above all in the fact that they showed the non-existence of any mysterious, supernatural force in society, and showed that man himself is the creator of history… On the other hand, Marxism established that men do not arbitrarily create their history but do so on the basis of the objective, material conditions left to them by previous generations. Thereby voluntarism and subjectivism are eliminated and the way to the understanding of history as a law-bound process is open. (120)
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Fleischer, H. (1965). The Essence of Historical Materialism. In: Short Handbook of Communist Ideology. Sovietica, vol 20. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-3584-2_4
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