Thursday, September 1, 2011

Marxist Materialism

When people who focus on politics engage with people who mostly focus on science, confusion arises.

Marxist materialism is not the same as the scientific postulation of materialism. Marxism says that every problem in society can be explained by the lack of material goods in that instance. Scientific materialism states that all that exists is matter. While someone can be both, one isn't always coupled with the other. Being the former usually does include the latter. However, the latter doesn't always include the former.

I can be a scientific materialist yet I can see that humans are much more than the material that they can produce as a worker. I could also say that I am only composed of matter, but the sum total of the parts produces something much greater than the parts when not arranged in such a fashion. I don't know if such a thing introduces a new form of materialism or not.

When someone brings up being a materialist, or a discussion on the topic arises, make sure terms are defined before continuing on into the discussion. As National Socialists, we are not materialists in the Marxist sense. There are elements such as culture which play an important part to society and not just the material goods which are available. However, I will not state a stance as far as scientific materialism is concerned. As far as I am concerned, there can be multiple opinions and debate on that issue.

We are only against Marxist materialism as far as this webpage is concerned. Hopefully this was able to get rid of some of the confusion that occasionally arises when bringing up this subject.

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