The phrase "dialectical materialist" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is often used in the field of philosophy or political theory to describe a person or theory that follows the principles of dialectical materialism, which is a philosophical approach that emphasizes the role of material conditions and their transformation in shaping history and society. Example: Karl Marx was a famous dialectical materialist who believed in the inevitability of a classless society through the overthrow of capitalism.
Somewhere in Dr John Reid, the successful politician, is a failed dialectical materialist lecturer, and any interview, as mine did, soon turns into a Socratic browbeating.
Woodfox, who now described himself as a "dialectical materialist," summarized what he'd learned from the Party's list of some thirty required books, by writers like W.E.B.
Hegel realised, as Žižek likes to put it, that radical change "retroactively posits its own presuppositions" – in other words, that it alters the past as well as the future – and this means, apparently, that he was a better "dialectical materialist" than Marx could ever be.
In my experience, successful editors employ several strategies to ensure good relations with the government: they use quotations from top leaders, they analyze social events from a dialectical materialist perspective, and they avoid absolutism and extremism.
Or at least a dialectical materialist.
Art went from being a Trotskyite in the late '40s and hence a self-confessed dialectical materialist as publisher of The Militant.
Some dialectical materialists incorporated Darwinian theories in a frontal attack on the Christian worldview.
Dialectical materialists contrast their view with what they call "vulgar" materialism; and it does, indeed, appear that their theory is not an extreme materialism, whether mechanical or physicalist.
The notion that many among the earliest dialectical materialists believed firmly in the possibility, indeed the inevitability, of such transcendental developments will raise the eyebrows of many a reader.
His continued defense of atheism and atomism and his denial of any distinction between mind and matter (Natur und Geist, 1857; "Nature and Spirit") appealed strongly to freethinkers, but dialectical materialists condemned his acceptance of competitive capitalism, which Büchner viewed as an example of Charles Darwin's "struggle for survival".
In Dialectical Imaginaries: Materialist Approaches to U.S. Latino/a Literature in the Age of Neoliberalism.
