Historical materialism: has conception a future?
The paper considers scientific and intellectual advantages of the central part of Marxism - historical materialism. The author shows in detail that the methodology of historical materialism and its approach to the study of society has quite valuable findings, effective methods which will be useful for specialists in social sciences as well as for historians aiming at wide analogies. The paper provides detailed clarifications of this phenomenon and the restrictions of the present model of history and mathematics, out dated ideas which were not confirmed by history. The author studies the history of western Marxism and western Marxist historiography. The paper concludes that at present the future of history and mathematics is determined by the paradox: its influence grows as it dissolves in other theories. Since it has become the part of the common intellectual heritage, one can say figuratively speaking about genetic drift of historical materialism and Marxism which in spite of everything appears to be vital study. In short, if treating historical materialism creatively, it still remains the significant intellectual reserve.