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Dialectical materialism is a philosophy of nature and philosophy of science developed in the late 19th century, largely from the writings of Friedrich Engels. By synthesising Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's dialectic with philosophical materialism, it proposes that the world is material, that all phenomena are the result of matter in motion, and that the world's evolution is the product of a dialectical process driven by internal contradiction. It posits a set of general laws—most notably the transformation of quantity into quality, the interpenetration of opposites, and the negation of the negation—that are claimed to govern nature, society, and thought. The intellectual origins of dialectical materialism can be traced to 19th-century German idealism, particularly Hegel's theory of the dialectic as a logical process of development. Karl Marx and Engels inverted Hegel's idealist system, proposing that the dialectic was not a process of the "Concept" or "Idea" but of the real, material world. While Marx never used the term "dialectical materialism", he applied some of its principles in his critique of political economy and his theory of history, historical materialism. After Marx's death, Engels extended the dialectical method to the natural sciences in works such as Anti-Dühring (1878) and Dialectics of Nature, formulating what he saw as its general laws. The term "dialectical materialism" was coined in 1887 by Joseph Dietzgen, though it was the Russian Marxist Georgi Plekhanov who introduced it to Marxist literature in the 1890s. In the 20th century, dialectical materialism was further developed by Vladimir Lenin, who adapted it for his revolutionary political project. In Materialism and Empirio-criticism (1909), Lenin redefined matter in purely epistemological terms as "objective reality" and introduced the principle of "partisanship", which asserted that all philosophy is inherently political and tied to class struggle.