But for today, you learned about Karl Marx, historical materialism and Marx’s basic perspective on history.

但是今天，您了解了卡尔·马克思、历史唯物主义和马克思的基本历史观。

This focus on labor gave rise to the perspective created by Marx and his longtime collaborator Friedrich Engels – a perspective known as historical materialism.

这种对劳动的关注催生了马克思和他的长期合作者弗里德里希·恩格斯创造的观点——一种被称为历史唯物主义的观点。

Plenty of theorists followed in Marx’s wake, taking his idea of historical materialism and expanding it to better deal with some of the areas that Marx had left out.

许多理论家追随马克思的脚步，采纳他的历史唯物主义思想并将其扩展， 以更好地处理马克思遗漏的一些领域。

If you think back to his theory of historical materialism, he certainly seems to put a strong focus on technology and the economy as the driving forces of history.

如果你回想一下他的历史唯物主义理论，他显然似乎非常关注技术和经济作为历史的驱动力。