Also known as “idealist conception of history”. The conception of the history of society, fundamentally opposing to historical materialism, reduces the ultimate cause of social phenomena and their development to the spiritual factor. Historical idealism claims that social consciousness determines social being, denies that the mode of production of material means is the determining force of social existence and development, denies the objective laws of development of the history of society, and denies the part played by the masses in history…
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