Why do Communists speak of materialism as “dialectical”?
Their faulty concept of matter as the only reality, with their denial of God, the soul, and anything spiritual, making matter itself god, its self-creator, is “explained” by the dialectic (the method by which Marx explained his theory of materialism). The dialectic rules the laws of nature, society, and man’s thinking. Marx held that every idea contains, within itself, its own opposite or denial. This is called an operation of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. At the present time, according to dialectical materialism, the thesis (or ruling class) is the bourgeoisie. The antithesis is the proletariat. The synthesis is communism. In reality, however, the proletariat is the dictatorship of the Communist Party, which is controlled by a few men. 13. How does the Communist system relate matter and motion? Matter and motion are inseparable in this theory. The constant motion in matter, in nature, in the history of mankind, is always a motion of conflict, a debate which they call “dialectical
