Materialism is another name for Naturalism. The dialectic says that in everything there is a thesis (the way things are) and an antithesis (an opposition to the way things are) which must inevitably clash. The result of the struggle and merging that comes from the clash is the synthesis, which becomes the new thesis. This new thesis will eventually attract another antithesis, and produce a new synthesis. 

In other words, everything that exists, is the result of a clash between two prior separate objects or philosophies. That result ( the synthesis), then clashes with another opposing force to create another, and so on and so on. For Marxists, "Dialectical Materialism" is the driving process that moved matter from inorganic state into life, then to animals, then humans, and finally organized social institutions like governments and nations. The Marxists encourage opposition and strife since it is the mother of all needful change.

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