Name: Materialism, God, the Spiritual, and Discipline Under Socialism.
Uploaded: 2022-02-23T22:30:40+00:00
Duration: 48 min 12 s
Description: A first real philosophical video of ours. It attempts to help comrades understand what materialism relates to, how this relates to non-physical things and why it is that morally lax leftists have an i

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A first real philosophical video of ours. It attempts to help comrades understand what materialism relates to, how this relates to non-physical things and why it is that morally lax leftists have an interest in denying anything that isn't physical.

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:22 Materialism, Realism and Physicalism
06:11 Mindset of an Objective, External Reality Unaffected by Mental Processes
07:29 Whether God Could be Part of Such a Reality
10:00 Acceptable Positions in the Party
10:30 Religion Interfacing with the Essence of Man
12:04 What “Man” Really Entails Beyond the Physical
13:35 What Science is, Scientific Study of Non-Physical Things
15:19 Whether Empirical Science is Best Suited for the Study of the “Essence of Man”
22:45 Religion Being Reduced to Empty Platonic Ideas Strips it of Authentic Material Basis
25:49 Vulgar Materialism isn’t Dialectical Materialism
28:35 Material is that which Cannot be Encapsulated by Form, as Divinity Cannot be Encapsulated by an Idol
30:32 Science Requires Abstracting from Observations
31:22 Marx’s Analysis of Value is not Physical
31:45 Alienation’s Species-Being Means Man Has a Nature
35:24 Why the Vulgar Materialist Error Persists
36:11 Socialism is not Freedom from Restraint and Discipline
37:44 “Conservatives” are so Only in Economics
39:09 Free Association is not Acting on Whims
40:44 Abstraction and Reasoning Based on Observation to Understand Non-Physical Things is not Anti-Materialist
41:52 Is Faith just Irrational and Blind Superstition?
42:40 “God of the Gaps”
44:32 Process of Acknowledging a Fact is the Same as for Any Other
45:10 Conclusion
46:33 Outro