Alexander repeats the word to define both Marxism and the perspective of real communists as wholly non-supernatural and atheistic.
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materialistic
A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
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A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
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"materialistic uh um um um um materialistic uh um um materialistic uh um um materialistic uh um um um ideology that denies the existence..."
"communists anyway i can deliver an absolute fact that uh their perspective is a purely and"
"completely materialistic one nico says and alex when you are in greece come in haidari sit in polataki so i can come and say..."
"...full on. You know. Like art, music, incense. All this very materialistic almost you know like down to earth things that really incites like..."
"Yeah, so what this is saying is we're materialistic and all we care about is material accumulation and so it becomes a zero -sum..."
"...to add on to that because people are not only too materialistic, they're also like, we haven't been this spiritually away from ourselves, from..."
"...say well history is driven by these structural forces that are materialistic as marx would argue right so the history is not governed by..."
"...along with chinese people uh because i am very much anti -materialistic so it's this sense of isolation the sense of exile that allows..."
"So I think that, you know, when you have, like, materialistic goals, it kind of motivates you sometimes. So, for example, if there's, like,..."
"...So, earth is hell. And you can learn from all the materialistic things. You can learn if they're good or not and then return..."
"...like our society, it's unique in that we are an extremely materialistic society that basically ignores anything that is not materialistic. And so we..."
"...people practice people here love money um chinese are the most materialistic people you will ever meet it's money money money that's that's all..."
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