As a (rather tangential) consequence of something I’m working on at the moment I’m looking at the use of the terms ‘historical materialism’ and ‘materialist conception (etc.) of history’. Obviously, Marx never uses them. ‘Historical materialism’ appears twice in the special introduction to the English edition of Socialism: Utopian and Scientific; otherwise, Engels uses ‘materialist conception (etc.) of history’ in his later work and correspondence, not liberally, but he uses it. Plekhanov uses all of these terms all the time. I haven’t really looked at anyone else. So: does anyone know of any *systematic* philological study of the appearance of these term(s), both in original texts, and in translations, from Marx and Engels on, which deals with how the term(s) started to be used and have come to be as ubiquitous as they are now?
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