Q: What is the difference between naturalism and dialectical materialism ?
A: ....That is a good question. Well, while both naturalism and dialectical materialism believe in a cause and effect world, oddly enough there is more hope for humanity on the Marxist side of the argument. Naturalism says that stuff happens and boo for you if it sucks. Karma is just coming to get you, it says, and why should it matter to you? There's no purpose for your life anyway. In the Naturalist's cause-and-effect, effect need not necessarily be progressive. Dialectical Materialism does believe, however, that the new synthesis, the "effect", is better, more progressive, than the clash of the thesis and antithesis, or "cause". There is still this idea floatin about that there's nothing that isn't the effect of something and the cause of something, but they think that the new thing is a combination of the best of the original two. They also think this type of cause and effect can be used by human beings in the proletariat for reform. So basically there's actually some idea of human life meaning something here. Besides this though, the two are basically the same.
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