Materialism: A discussion including Satanists

• V.I. Lenin on premises of materialist philosophy

• Huey Newton fought idealism and solipsism

• Marx and Engels against the "private science" of intellectuals

• Go to Discussion of Lenin's book Materialism and Empirio-Criticism

Popular opposition to materialism

Politics

• MIM: Trotskyists don't see practice as the criterion of truth
• MIM offers 12 step program for avoiding idealism
• MIM: Most "leftism" is pipe-dreaming not science

 Psychological well-being

• Tani of Red Ray Grotto on dualism

Causes of rejection of materialism

• Brain damage: Vad from the Red Ray Grotto on Damasio
• Ruling class manipulation: Maoist Peking Review on the rise of religion in the USSR