MATERIALISM
432. Essentially, there are two kinds of materialism: material materialism and formal materialism. The latter is a declared materialism, while the former is the consequence of the impotence of the consciousness: when the power of the spirit can not resist the influx of the psychic and corporal contingencies coming from beneath.
433. Materialism is a philosophical school that stylises and articulates naive realism, that is, a view that only wants to see the surface of the surfaces.
434. Materialistic objectivism is the most inferior philosophical approach.
435. Materialism separates man from the superior worlds not by its teachings, but primarily through the situations and formations of life, since what is becoming corrupt, also depraves, and what is destroyed also works as a destructive force through its residual-like nature.
436. There was no materialism before the 6th century B.C., - it would have been impossible.
437. The English Civil War had a protestant nature. The »great« French Revolution was deist. The Russian Revolution was directly atheistic. The grades of descent of modern times are: Protestantism ? Deism ? Atheism.
438. The real materialistic-atheist is eventually a disguised anti-theist: he knows that there is God, but still he denies it in revenge. He is angry with God, because He forbids him something, and since he cannot bear to be restricted, he denies His being.
[One of the slogans of the Paris Commune was: »There is no God, and even if there were, He should be shot-down.«]
439. Man generally considers something real when he is unable to cope with it, and the more powerless he is, the more real he considers that thing to be. This is why the sense of touch is the chief sensation of verification, since this is when one meets with the most impenetrable, against which man is the most helpless - in fact, during touching he only experiences the weight of his own body or of a part of his body. At the same time, there is nothing less real for the man of the dark age than that which is so much in his power that it is identical with him. He is unable to apprehend himself as the subject of every action, because he does not experience any resistance against and impotence towards his very self. This is called viparyaya in the Hindu tradition.
440. However much the Marxist view made itself loathed in the socialist era, its strong effects can be clearly appreciated even in the case of those who stood against it.
441. Materialist atheism in the countries of Bolshevistic terror was an anti-religious anti-religion which became the established state religion.