For decades, Marxism and the socialist tradition more generally — of which Marxism is just apart — were associated with a doctrine known as materialism. But in the recent past, this approach has ...

If you're materialistic, you're likely to use Facebook more frequently and intensely. A new article reveals that materialistic people see and treat their Facebook friends as 'digital objects,' and ...

Paul Mattick Sr.'s 1939 review, from Living Marxism, of Karl Korsch' biography simply titled Karl Marx, first published in English in 1938. Mattick finds the biography largely relevant to proletarian ...

This paper examines the resurgence of interest in the interpretation of quantum theory which occurred in the late 1940s and 1950s, and seeks to uncover its political origins in a perceived clash ...

A newly published study has found that building self-esteem in preschool-aged children may help reduce early signs of materialism, particularly in children who are already developing ...

Thomas Nagel, a distinguished philosopher at New York University, is well known for his critique of “materialistic reductionism” as an account of the mind-body relationship. In his new and ...

DR. NORMAN CAMPBELL has not understood me. Probably thinking that I am an idealist philosopher, he has supposed that I must be arguing that there is no scientific reality in the accepted meaning—that ...

We all want to be happy. Some of us derive happiness from different places than others, with varying degrees of success. A lot of commercial advertising would have us believe we need newer and better ...