Materialism

Materialism is a metaphysical stance that only the materials exists, in contrast to Idealism. The notion of materialism itself had existed before Buddhism.

Modern materialism is mainly influenced by Feuerbach, who used to be interested in Young Hegelianism. Feuerbach's materialism was expanded to dialectical materialism by Marx, who advocated that communism is the inevitable next stage of capitalism. Marx's theory of dialectical materialism had later influenced many state atheist policies in Soviet Union, Albania, North Korea, and especially China and ect.