“The truth of faith about creation is radically opposed to the theories of materialistic philosophy. These view the cosmos as the result of an evolution of matter reducible to pure chance and necessity.” MatterPhilosophyChanceResultsViewsCreationTheoryEvolutionPureCosmosMaterialismMaterialistic Author:Pope John Paul II
“Economy and ideology. The claim (presented as an essential postulate of historical materialism) that every fluctuation of politics and ideology can be presented and expounded as an immediate expression of the structure, must be contested in theory as primitive infantilism, and combated in practice with the authentic testimony of Marx, the author of concrete political and historical works.” PoliticalPracticeEconomyExpressionTheoryEssentialsClaimsStructureHistoricalIdeologyMaterialismConcretePrimitiveTestimonyFluctuation Author:Antonio Gramsci
“It's a flaw in our argument, for sure. By any reading of evolutionary theory, creationists ought to have died out ages ago. They serve no function in the planet's ecosystem, and no other species has survived so long while in such fundamental disagreement with observable reality. If I wasn't such an ardent believer in secular materialism, I'd wager this is really troubling Darwin in the afterlife.” IfsLongRealityAgeReadingPlanetsTheoryOughtArgumentFunctionDiedFundamentalsSpeciesBelieverMaterialismFlawsAfterlifeSecularSurvivedDisagreementEcosystemsArdentWagers Author:Richard Dawkins
“I'm less influenced by any of [Karl] Marx's ideas today than I've ever been in my life, and most significantly Marx's theory of historical materialism, which I think is virtually a debris of despotism.” ThinkingIdeasTodayTheoryHistoricalMaterialismDespotismDebris Author:Murray Bookchin
“After reading The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi, I realized that capitalism did not naturally grow as [Karl] Marx would imply by his theory of historical materialism. People were dragged into capitalism screaming, shouting, and fighting all along the way, trying to resist this industrial and commercial world.” PeopleWorldWayTryingFightingReadingGrowsTheoryCapitalismTransformationHistoricalI RealizedMaterialismShouting Author:Murray Bookchin