and the premises of the new materialism he is proposing now,

铺垫了他现在提出的新唯物主义
what he's beginning to call now historical materialism--

他将其称作历史唯物主义
stays away from the word 'dialectical'.

他要与"辩证"一词保持距离
And then he develops--right?--

接下来他发展了
a materialist conception of history and historical development.

历史及历史发展的唯物主义观
He replaces Adam Smith's categorization of societies as

他将亚当·斯密的社会分类
hunting, gathering, grazing, agricultural or commercial

狩猎收集放牧农业和商业
with a new typology.

替换成了新的社会分类形式
This new typology will be the typology of the modes of production.

这种分类即对各种生产方式进行分类
Not--in fact, in The German Ideology

事实上在《德意志意识形态》中
he stays pretty close to Adam Smith.

他的理论和亚当·斯密极其接近
I will point this out.

我会指出这点