Marxism, Buddhism, and Dialectical Materialism

Buddhism and Marxism are process philosophies, meaning they apprehend all phenomena as processes instead of things or objects. In both traditions, nothing is static and change is the only constant. To see capitalism as historically contingent and ephemeral is to grasp dialectical and historical materialism. Both capitalists,. fending off socialists, and fundamental Christians fending off Darwinian evolutionists, must reject a dialectical way of apprehending the world. They must put their hands up and scream STOP in the face of the inexorable march of history.