--- title: "10 Dialectical Materialism Quotes by 10 authors" description: "Browse 10 Dialectical Materialism quotes by 10 authors. Discover the best Dialectical Materialism sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb4/joseph-stalin-1734_marxism_marxism-is-not-only-the-theory-of-social_1173879.jpg" --- > [Marxism is not only the theory of socialism, it is an integral world outlook, a philosophical system, from which Marx’s proletarian socialism…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-stalin/marxism-is-not-only-the-theory-of-socialism-it-is-an-integral-world/) [Joseph Stalin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-stalin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb4/joseph-stalin-1734_marxism_marxism-is-not-only-the-theory-of-social_1173879.jpg) > [As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diane-frolov/as-a-scientist-i-am-not-sure-anymore-that-life-can-be-reduced-to-a/) [Diane Frolov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diane-frolov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/792/diane-frolov-35838_class_as-a-scientist-i-am-not-sure-anymore-tha_2113469.png) > [“Wasn't modernism's greatest coup to destroy the notion of progression? And yet it still comes back in history books, in dialectical materialism,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-kraus/wasn-t-modernism-s-greatest-coup-to-destroy-the-notion-of-progression/) [Chris Kraus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-kraus/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a8e/chris-kraus-11419_getting-better_wasn-t-modernism-s-greatest-coup-to-dest_2361976.jpg) > [Dialectical materialism works like cocaine, let's say. If you sniff it once or twice, it may not change your life. If you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicolae-ceausescu/dialectical-materialism-works-like-cocaine-let-s-say-if-you-sniff-it/) [Nicolae Ceausescu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicolae-ceausescu/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/492/nicolae-ceausescu-46401_addict_dialectical-materialism-works-like-cocai_1472646.jpg) > [“Those who have been forced to study 'dialectical materialism', the strange concoction that was supposed to form the philosophical foundation of Marxism…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugene-v-koonin/those-who-have-been-forced-to-study-dialectical-materialism-the/) [Eugene V. Koonin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eugene-v-koonin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/669/eugene-v-koonin-168395_dialectical-material_those-who-have-been-forced-to-study-dial_1266084.jpg) > [“Orthodox Marxism, therefore, does not imply the uncritical acceptance of the results of Marx’s investigations. It is not the ‘belief’ in this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gy-rgy-luk-cs/orthodox-marxism-therefore-does-not-imply-the-uncritical-acceptance/) [György Lukács](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gy-rgy-luk-cs/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/81f/gy-rgy-luk-cs-53182_quote_orthodox-marxism-therefore-does-not-impl_2088245.jpg) > [In comparison with capitalism, which reconstituted man as an economic animal; in comparison with Marxism, which found man an object made up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ali-shariati/in-comparison-with-capitalism-which-reconstituted-man-as-an-economic/) [Ali Shariati](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ali-shariati/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6eb/ali-shariati-35249_existentialism_in-comparison-with-capitalism-which-reco_3040277.jpg) > [A US Department of Education; implementation of a scientific materialist philosophy; studies, being cleansed of religious, patriotic and other features of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-z-foster/a-us-department-of-education-implementation-of-a-scientific/) [William Z. Foster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-z-foster/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/516/william-z-foster-83957_bases_a-us-department-of-education-implementat_999548.jpg) > [“Humankind does not submit passively to the power of nature. It takes control over this power. This process is not an internal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sankara/humankind-does-not-submit-passively-to-the-power-of-nature-it-takes/) [Thomas Sankara](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-sankara/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/891/thomas-sankara-16731_dialectical_humankind-does-not-submit-passively-to-t_2745109.jpg) > [“Lenin clearly and unambiguously poses the question of the relationship between the ‘form’ of materialism and its ‘essence’, of the impermissibility of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/evald-ilyenkov/lenin-clearly-and-unambiguously-poses-the-question-of-the/) [Evald Ilyenkov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/evald-ilyenkov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/604/evald-ilyenkov-179527_dialectical-material_lenin-clearly-and-unambiguously-poses-th_1080432.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dialectical-materialism/#itemlist", "name": "Dialectical Materialism Quotes", "numberOfItems": 10, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Marxism is not only the theory of socialism, it is an integral world outlook, a philosophical system, from which Marx’s proletarian socialism logically follows. 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The whole basis and organization of capitalist science will be revolutionized. Science will become materialistic, hence truly scientific. God will be banished from the laboratories as well as from the schools.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "William Z. Foster" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-z-foster/a-us-department-of-education-implementation-of-a-scientific/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/516/william-z-foster-83957_bases_a-us-department-of-education-implementat_999548.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/516/william-z-foster-83957_bases_a-us-department-of-education-implementat_999548.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/516/william-z-foster-83957_bases_a-us-department-of-education-implementat_999548.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“A US Department of Education; implementation of a scientific materialist philosophy; studies, being cleansed…” — William Z. 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The importance of dialectical materialism lies in going beyond the inherent limits of biology, rejecting simplistic theories about our being slaves to the nature of our species, and, instead, placing facts in their social and economic context.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Thomas Sankara" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sankara/humankind-does-not-submit-passively-to-the-power-of-nature-it-takes/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/891/thomas-sankara-16731_dialectical_humankind-does-not-submit-passively-to-t_2745109.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/891/thomas-sankara-16731_dialectical_humankind-does-not-submit-passively-to-t_2745109.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/891/thomas-sankara-16731_dialectical_humankind-does-not-submit-passively-to-t_2745109.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Humankind does not submit passively to the power of nature. It takes control over this power. This process…” — Thomas Sankara", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 10, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Lenin clearly and unambiguously poses the question of the relationship between the ‘form’ of materialism and its ‘essence’, of the impermissibility of identification of the former with the latter. The ‘form’ of materialism is found in those concrete-scientific ideas about the constitution of matter (about the ‘physical’, about ‘atoms and electrons’) and in natural scientific generalizations of these ideas that are inevitably turn out to be historically limited, changing, subject to reconsideration by the natural science itself. The ‘essence’ of materialism is found in the acceptance of the objective reality that exists independently of human cognition and that is only reflected in it. The creative development of dialectical materialism on the basis of the ‘philosophical conclusions derived from the newest discoveries of natural science’ is, according to Lenin, found not in the reconsideration of this essence and not in making the ideas of natural scientists eternal, but in the deepening of the understanding of the ‘relationship between cognition and the physical world’ that is connected with these new ideas about nature. The dialectical understanding of the relationship between the ‘form’ and ‘essence’ of materialism, and therefore, the relationship between ‘ontology’ and ‘epistemology’ constitutes the ‘spirit of dialectical materialism”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Evald Ilyenkov" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/evald-ilyenkov/lenin-clearly-and-unambiguously-poses-the-question-of-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/604/evald-ilyenkov-179527_dialectical-material_lenin-clearly-and-unambiguously-poses-th_1080432.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/604/evald-ilyenkov-179527_dialectical-material_lenin-clearly-and-unambiguously-poses-th_1080432.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/604/evald-ilyenkov-179527_dialectical-material_lenin-clearly-and-unambiguously-poses-th_1080432.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Lenin clearly and unambiguously poses the question of the relationship between the ‘form’ of materialism and…” — Evald Ilyenkov", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dialectical-materialism/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dialectical-materialism/", "name": "Dialectical Materialism Quotes", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dialectical-materialism/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb4/joseph-stalin-1734_marxism_marxism-is-not-only-the-theory-of-social_1173879.jpg" }, "description": "Browse 10 Dialectical Materialism quotes by 10 authors. 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