Dialectical Materialism vs. "The New Physics"

by Mike Gimbel

Materialism also has its own spectrum of viewpoints, from static to dialectical. Static materialism looks at objects isolated from other objects and from the evolutionary process. Thereby they destroy their ability to understand how the object they are trying to analyze fits into the constantly changing real world. Dialectical materialism looks at reality from the point of view of constant change. In other words, the static materialist’s reality is like viewing a single photograph in order to understand the world while the dialectical materialist reality is like viewing a motion picture in order to understand the world. Today, we live in a world that is being convulsed by the greatest economic crisis in the history of capitalist rule. One would think that this would cause tens of millions of youth and workers to be flocking into Marxist parties all over the world. But this has not happened. Not yet, at least.