Abstract
Marx described the development of human societies in terms of ‘historical
materialism’. Societies evolve through ‘dialectic’, an internal process of
contradictions. The change in ‘tools of production’ brings about change in
‘superstructure’. For Marx, it is not the ‘ideas’ that change ‘material
conditions’ of existence but it is the other way round. The initial primitive
stages of history came to an end through their internal contradictions and
gave birth to more advanced stages. In One Hundred Years of Solitude, the
village of Macondo can be taken as a microcosm, a small scale world which
also follows these stages of ‘historical materialism’. In the beginning, it is
just a small apolitical community but later on, it evolves into a coherent
social formation and towards the end it reaches an advanced stage of
capitalism. The paper explores this evolution in the light of Marx’s concept
of history and how developments in matter affect the social structure.
Sheheryar Khan. (2015) One Hundred Years of Dialectics: Macondo and the Dynamics of History , Mayar , Volume 13-14, Issue 1.
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