All 5 Uses

materialistic
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Long Walk to Freedom
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I acquired the complete works of Marx and Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Mao Tse-tung, and others and probed into the philosophy of dialectical and historical materialism.†
Chpt 2.8
Dialectical materialism seemed to offer both a searchlight illuminating the dark night of racial oppression and a tool that could be used to end it.†
Chpt 2.8
I was attracted to the scientific underpinnings of dialectical materialism, for I am always inclined to trust what I can verify.†
Chpt 2.8
Its materialistic analysis of economics rang true to me.†
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materialistic = too concerned with wealth and possessions
A friend once asked me how I could reconcile my creed of African nationalism with a belief in dialectical materialism.†
Chpt 2.8

Definitions:

(1) (materialistic)
overly concerned with wealth and possessions at the expense of other interests
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Less commonly, in philosophy, materialistic can refer to the belief that everything, including our thoughts, are caused by physical effects over which we have no control.