Encyclopedia entries like these can always be improved upon. There is one
paragraph in this one which puzzles me. See below. Examples would have
helped. Of course there have been philosophers interested in dialectical
materialism as an ontology independent of its political marxist
ramifications. Some of these were not explicit marxists; others were
sympathetic; some were Marxists; some were dialectical materialists, some
not. I can't think of anyone offhand who declared himself a dialectical
materialist without being a Marxist. But you never know. The reader,
though, can't get much sense out of this paragraph without further explanation.
At 06:06 PM 1/17/2006 -0500, Charles Brown wrote:
Dialectical materialism
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<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectical_materialism#column-one>
While dialectical materialism has been traditionally associated almost
exclusively with Marxism, some claim that the philosophy is applicable to a
non-Marxist worldview <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldview> as well.
There is nothing in either the concept of dialectic as elaborated by Hegel
or in materialism itself which requires Marxism. However, because Marxism is
essentially free of traditional theological influences, it is particularly
well-suited to dialectical materialism, and a comparable political system
based on the philosophy has not yet emerged.
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