Question: What is the relationship between historical materialism (HM) and discourse?
A: As a philosophical approach, HM focuses purely on discourse and as such is distinctive from the other major approaches to international relations.
B: HM is interested in how changes in particular structures and the inequalities of power associated with them are vital to the rise and fall of discourses.
C: HM regards discourse between states and government actors to be the most important sphere for analysis within the international system.
D: Under the HM paradigm, the realm of political discourse is considered to be of secondary importance to the examination of practical or lived experiences of political interaction.
Please eliminate two incorrect options first, then think it step by step and choose the most proper one option. Your answer should have exactly 10 paragraphs. Make sure that the last paragraph starts with the word "identity" and that each paragraph is separated by two new lines.
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