There is an unnerving similarity between many economists naive premise of a perfectly rational market and the dialectical materialism of scientific socialism.

, Marx refined his views on socialism based upon Hegelian and Feuerbachian ideas of dialectical materialism, at the same time criticising liberals and other socialists operating in Europe.

Which shelf for materialism?

For others, withdrawal, nihilism, materialism.

Freed from the tyranny of materialism?

Materialism Arguably the first exposition of empirical materialism in the history of philosophy is in the Cārvāka school (a.k.a.

There's the proponent and the opponent in an adversarial, dialectical argument.

And one of the problems with money is materialism.

Humans are capable of far more than selfishness and materialism.

These are dark times, full of greed and cynical scientific materialism.

Because every time I give, it breaks the grip of materialism in my life.

American films, for example, include sex, violence, and materialism, but that is not the whole story.

Islam Hadhari tries to project the idea that UMNO s materialism and nationalism do not contradict Islam.

Materialism and consumerism cannot be a substitute for political and religious freedoms, which remain severely constrained.

The books on this shelf pertain to empiricism, and on this shelf, materialism, and on this, psychopiscoparalysm.

And Chinese intellectuals face the cruelest reality harsh suppression and a popular audience devoted to mammon and materialism.

And materialism, they think they get out of it just by not existing, by dying, but they don't.

Peace, he said, was not possible in an environment where there were no family ties and where materialism ruled.

There are surely some who would like to deal with questions of development from a dialectical viewpoint, but that is not true of us.

Any Chinese can become another Liu Xiaobo if they choose to see through the lies of the regime s Materialism Leninism.

Hopefully, through time, religion will loose it's materialism and basis in superstition and move into the useful field of philosophy.

Karl Marx makes this abundantly clear in his dialectical derivation of the forms of value in the first chapters of Das Kapital (see value form).

Now, some people look at this and talk about shallow materialism, but that's absolutely the wrong way to look at it.

Maybe what wants to be said is that old and the new are locked in a dialectical embrace, a kind of dance where each defines the other.

Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is a therapy designed to help people change patterns of behavior that are not helpful, such as self harm, suicidal thinking, and substance abuse.

Materialism is all about getting get, get, get, get all you can, can all you get, sit on the can and spoil the rest.

The first model let's call it the dialectical model is we think of arguments as war you know what that's like a lot of screaming and shouting and winning and losing.

And this tendency to blindly hold on to a belief system, sheltering it from new possibly transforming information is nothing less than a form of intellectual materialism.

Huxley s masterpiece, which had more to say about materialism, mood control, mass distraction, and social fragmentation than Orwell s, offers a new kind of insight into what is really happening in twenty first century China.

He would seek in his reports to clarify in a dialectical manner the relationship between those two sovereign acts in the hope that countries would accord equal respect to migrants and citizens, for example by empowering migrants to participate in elections, as recommended by the European Union.

The monetary system perpetuates this materialism not only by it's self preserving structures, but also throught the countless number of people who have been conditioned into blindly and thoughtlessly upholding these structures, therefore becoming self appointed guardians of the status quo.

From December 1851 to March 1852, Marx wrote The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon , a work on the French Revolution of 1848, in which he expanded upon his concepts of historical materialism, class struggle and the dictatorship of the proletariat, advancing the argument that victorious proletariat has to smash the bourgeois state.

If a women lost custody of her children, she could make a petition to the high court. Traditionally, widows had always been well protected, but there had been an upsurge of ill treatment of widows, especially in the urban areas, linked to the advent of the money economy and new found materialism.