Materialism (n.) is problematic in that the idea that men are products of circumstances and upbringing and that, therefore, changed men are products of other circumstances and changed upbringing neglects that it is men that change circumstances and that the educator himself needs educating.
Materialism (n.) is the idea that 'being determines consciousness', as opposed to idealism, which states that 'consciousness determines being'.
Materialism (n.) perfected by speculation itself coincides with humanism, Feuerbach in theory and French and English communism in practice.
Materialism (n.) is the natural-born son of Great Britain: the schoolman Duns Scotus already asked whether matter could think, and made theology preach materialism by appealing to God's omnipotence.
Materialism (n.) had to chastise its own flesh and turn ascetic in order to beat fleshless spiritualism on its own ground, and with Hobbes it loses its poetic blossom and takes to misanthropy.
Materialism (n.) leads necessarily to communism: if man draws all he knows from the world of the senses, then the empirical world must be arranged so that he experiences what is truly human in it.
Materialism (n.) has so far conceived reality only as an object of contemplation, never as sensuous human activity — so the active side was left to idealism, which developed it only abstractly.
Materialism (n.) used to stand on the ground of bourgeois society and see only single individuals; the new kind stands on human society, socialised mankind.